The incidence and burden of ladder, structure, and scaffolding falls

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 267-270

  Diggs, Brian S ^a   Lenfesty, Barbara ^a   Arthur, Melanie ^a   Hedges, Jerris R ^a   Newgard, Craig D ^a   Mullins, Richard J ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Accidental falls; Risk assessment; Wounds and injuries

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADULT; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FATALITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OCCUPATIONAL ACCIDENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; UNITED STATES;

EID: 13844255467     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/j.aem.2004.10.028     Document Type: Article

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