Re: 'Falls definition validation' [10]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-112

  Skelton, Dawn A ^a   Hauer, Klaus ^b,c   Lamb, Sallie ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^e JOHN RADCLIFFE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FALL RISK; FALLING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HUMAN; INJURY; LETTER; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RISK REDUCTION; SELF REPORT; STANDARDIZATION; TAI CHI; VALIDATION PROCESS; ACCIDENT PREVENTION; NOTE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SELF CONCEPT; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SELF CONCEPT;

EID: 33947576880     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afl138     Document Type: Letter

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