Falls in community-dwelling older persons following hip fracture: Impact on self-efficacy, balance and handicap

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 17, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 899-906

  Whitehead, Craig ^a   Miller, Michelle ^a   Crotty, Maria ^a  

^a REPATRIATION GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BODY EQUILIBRIUM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; COMMUNITY CARE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; LEG MUSCLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; RATING SCALE; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WALKING SPEED;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GAIT; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MUSCULOSKELETAL EQUILIBRIUM; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF EFFICACY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0344466361     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215503cr695oa     Document Type: Article

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