Multifactorial intervention to reduce falls in older people at high risk of recurrent falls: A randomized controlled trial

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 170, Issue 13, 2010, Pages 1110-1117

  De Vries, Oscar J ^a   Peeters, G M E E ^a   Elders, Petra J M ^a   Muller, Majon ^a   Knol, Dirk L ^a   Danner, Sven A ^a   Bouter, Lex M ^a   Lips, Paul ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COGNITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMERGENCY WARD; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE; GENERAL PRACTICE; GENERAL PRACTITIONER; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GERIATRIC CARE; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NETHERLANDS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PHYSICAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURES, BONE; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NETHERLANDS; ODDS RATIO; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RECURRENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954604327     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.169     Document Type: Article

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