Falls in advanced old age: Recalled falls and prospective follow-up of over-90-year-olds in the Cambridge City over-75s Cohort study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 8, Issue , 2008, Pages

  Fleming, Jane ^a,b   Matthews, Fiona E ^c   Brayne, Carol ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; BINOMIAL DISTRIBUTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; PREVALENCE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; TELEPHONE; UNITED KINGDOM; INTERVIEW; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 41949126149     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-8-6     Document Type: Article

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