Setting up a specialised service for falls and fracture prevention

Age and Ageing

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 471-472

  Naganathan, Vasi ^a   Cumming, Robert ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; EDITORIAL; FALLING; FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STROKE; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AUSTRALIA; FRACTURES, BONE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS;

EID: 0141729428     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afg080     Document Type: Editorial

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6. Hill K, Smith R, Schwarz J. Falls clinics in Australia: a survey of current practice, and recommendations for future development. Aust Health Rev 2001; 24: 163-74.