Fall risk: the clinical relevance of falls and how to integrate fall risk with fracture risk

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Rheumatology

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 797-804

  Peeters, G ^a   van Schoor, Natasja M ^a   Lips, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

accidental falls; fracture; osteoporosis; risk profiles

Indexed keywords

ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AGING; ATTRIBUTABLE RISK; BONE DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COMMUNITY CARE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FALLING; FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCREENING TEST; VALIDATION STUDY; VERTEBRA FRACTURE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGING; FRACTURES, BONE; HUMANS; OSTEOPOROSIS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 71749116832     PISSN: 15216942     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.berh.2009.09.004     Document Type: Review

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