Using the timed up and go test to stratify elderly inpatients at risk of falls

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 421-428

  Large, Julienne ^a   Gan, Neesha ^a   Basic, David ^a   Jennings, Natalie ^a  

^a LIVERPOOL HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDICTION; RATING SCALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TIMED UP AND GO TEST; WARD;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; TIME AND MOTION STUDIES;

EID: 33745042492     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215506cr959oa     Document Type: Article

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