Comparison of retrospective interviews and prospective diaries to facilitate fall reports among people with stroke

Age and Ageing

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 277-280

  Kunkel, Dorit ^a   Pickering, Ruth M ^a   Ashburn, Ann M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; AGED; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT MONITORING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE DIARY METHOD; RETROSPECTIVE INTERVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; STROKE; STROKE PATIENT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; COGNITION; ENGLAND; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MENTAL RECALL; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; REMINDER SYSTEMS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SELF REPORT; STROKE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79951800761     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afq177     Document Type: Letter

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