Falls Assessment Clinical Trial (FACT): Design, interventions, recruitment strategies and participant characteristics

BMC Public Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Elley, C Raina ^a   Robertson, M Clare ^b   Kerse, Ngaire M ^a   Garrett, Sue ^c   McKinlay, Eileen ^c   Lawton, Beverley ^c   Moriarty, Helen ^c   Campbell, A John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMMUNITY CARE; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH HAZARD; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NEW ZEALAND; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; SCREENING; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HOME ACCIDENT; METHODOLOGY; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIAL WORK; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FAMILY PRACTICE; FEMALE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; NURSING ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PRIMARY HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL WORK;

EID: 34548671913     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-7-185     Document Type: Article

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