Fall risk in an active elderly population - Can it be assessed?

Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine

Volumn 6, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Laessoe, Uffe ^a   Hoeck, Hans C ^b   Simonsen, Ole ^c   Sinkjaer, Thomas ^a   Voigt, Michael ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^b CENTER FOR CLINICAL AND BASIC RESEARCH   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREDICTION; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTURAL BALANCE; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SELF-ASSESSMENT;

EID: 33846918884     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14775751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1477-5751-6-2     Document Type: Article

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