Relationship between location and activity in injurious falls: An exploratory study

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Bleijlevens, Michel H C ^a   Diederiks, Joseph P M ^a   Hendriks, Marike R C ^a   Van Haastregt, Jolanda C M ^a   Crebolder, Harry F J M ^a   Van Eijk, Jacques Thm ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HOME ACCIDENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACCIDENTS, HOME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 77953633761     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-40     Document Type: Article

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