The personal and health service impact of falls in 85 year olds: Cross-sectional findings from the Newcastle 85+ Cohort Study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2012, Pages

  Collerton, Joanna ^a   Kingston, Andrew ^a   Bond, John ^a   Davies, Karen ^a   Eccles, Martin P ^a   Jagger, Carol ^a   Kirkwood, Thomas B L ^a   Newton, Julia L ^a,b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE HOSPITALS NHS FOUNDATION TRUST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DIZZINESS; ELDERLY CARE; FALL RISK ASSESSMENT; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PHYSICIAN ATTITUDE; POPULATION BASED CASE CONTROL STUDY; PROFESSIONAL KNOWLEDGE; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL CARE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COST; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; INTERVIEW; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS; UNCONSCIOUSNESS; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIZZINESS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PREVALENCE; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; UNCONSCIOUSNESS;

EID: 84857989959     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0033078     Document Type: Article

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