Evaluation of the falls telephone: An automated system for enduring assessment of falls

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 340-344

  Van Der Marck, Marjolein A ^a   Overeem, Sebastiaan ^b   Klok, Philomène C M ^a   Bloem, Bastiaan R ^b   Munneke, Marten ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

accidental falls; data collection; evaluation; sensitivity and specificity

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLS TELEPHONE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARKINSON DISEASE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RELIABILITY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; TELEPHONE;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; MALE; MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TELEPHONE;

EID: 79951656357     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2010.03263.x     Document Type: Article

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