Are recurrent fallers depressed? [7]

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 55, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2097-2099

  Somadder, Moushumi ^a   Mondal, Suvro ^a   Kersh, Rod ^b   Abdelhafiz, Ahmed H ^a  

^a ROTHERHAM GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

AGED; BARTHEL INDEX; COGNITIVE DEFECT; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEPRESSION; FALLING; FEMALE; GERIATRIC DEPRESSION SCALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MINI MENTAL STATE EXAMINATION; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RECURRENCE;

EID: 36849014957     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2007.01449.x     Document Type: Letter

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