Fall risk assessments in home care: OASIS-C Expectations

Home Health Care Management and Practice

Volumn 23, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 125-138

  Anemaet, Wendy K ^a   Krulish, Linda H ^b  

^a REGIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OASIS Answers Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

fall risk assessment; implementation; OASIS C process measures; prevention; tools

Indexed keywords

EID: 79952943107     PISSN: 10848223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1084822310385084     Document Type: Article

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