The timed "up & go" Test is a useful predictor of falls in community-dwelling older people

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 928-929

  Okumiya, Kiyohito ^a   Matsubayashi, Kozo ^a   Nakamura, Tomoko ^a   Fujisawa, Michiko ^a   Osaki, Yasushi ^a   Doi, Yoshinori ^a   Ozawa, Toshio ^a,b  

^a KOCHI MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; FALLING; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; JAPAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; RISK FACTOR; RURAL POPULATION;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0031821243     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.1998.tb02737.x     Document Type: Letter

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