Recruitment Strategies for a fall prevention program: If we build it, will they really come?

Journal of Trauma - Injury, Infection and Critical Care

Volumn 63, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 142-146

  Shandro, Jamie R ^a   Spain, David A ^a   Dicker, Rochelle A ^b,c  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly; Falls; Injury prevention; Recruitment

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT REFERRAL; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT SELECTION; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 34447323350     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: 15298809     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e318068428a     Document Type: Article

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