An interdisciplinary intervention to prevent falls in community-dwelling elderly persons: Protocol of a cluster-randomized trial [PreFalls]

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 11, Issue , 2011, Pages

  Blank, Wolfgang A ^a   Freiberger, Ellen ^b   Siegrist, Monika ^a   Landendoerfer, Peter ^a   Linde, Klaus ^a   Schuster, Tibor ^a   Pfeifer, Klaus ^b   Schneider, Antonius ^a   Halle, Martin ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; HUMAN; KINESIOTHERAPY; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RISK FACTOR;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; EXERCISE THERAPY; HUMANS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 79951583695     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-11-7     Document Type: Article

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