Identifying risk can reduce fall rates

Practitioner

Volumn 251, Issue 1693, 2007, Pages 39-49

  Swift, Cameron G ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; CONFERENCE PAPER; ECONOMICS; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT REFERRAL; PHYSIOLOGY; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA SEVERITY INDICES;

EID: 34247621918     PISSN: 00326518     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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