Perspectives on use of personal alarms y older fallers

International Journal of General Medicine

Volumn 3, Issue , 2010, Pages 231-237

  Johnston, Kylie ^a   Grimmer Somers, Karen ^a   Sutherland, Michele ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Government of South Australia   (Australia)

Author keywords

Falls; Older people; Patient perspective; Personal alarm devices

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALARM MONITOR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; HELP SEEKING BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERCEPTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW;

EID: 78650985633     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11787074     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/ijgm.s12603     Document Type: Article

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