Attitudes to falls and injury prevention: What are the barriers to implementing falls prevention strategies?

Clinical Rehabilitation

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 536-542

  Whitehead, Craig H ^a   Wundke, Rachel ^a   Crotty, Maria ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PSYCHOTROPIC AGENT;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY WARD; EXERCISE; FALL RISK; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HOME CARE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFESTYLE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY; SAFETY; TREATMENT REFUSAL; TREATMENT WITHDRAWAL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; RECURRENCE; SOUTH AUSTRALIA; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33746294783     PISSN: 02692155     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1191/0269215506cr984oa     Document Type: Article

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