Falls in hospitalized elderly patients: Incidence and risk factors;Le cadute nell'anziano ospedalizzato: Incidenza e fattori di rischio

Recenti Progressi in Medicina

Volumn 95, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 570-574

  Zanocchi, Mauro ^a   Pilon, Silvia ^a   Speme, Stefania ^a   Nicola, Elena ^a   Corsinovi, Laura ^a   Ponte, Elisabetta ^a   Cerrato, Flavio ^a   Luppino, Angela ^a   Martinelli, Elisa ^a   Margolicci, Angela ^a   Molaschi, Mario ^a  

^a MOLINETTE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Falls; Hospitalized elderly patients; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; EVALUATION; FALLING; FEMALE; GAIT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; ACUTE DISEASE; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; COGNITION DISORDERS; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; GAIT DISORDERS, NEUROLOGIC; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INPATIENTS; ITALY; MALE; POLYPHARMACY; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 19944427532     PISSN: 00341193     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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