What videos can tell us about falling

The Lancet

Volumn 381, Issue 9860, 2013, Pages 8-9

  Becker, Clemens ^a   Chiari, Lorenzo ^b  

^a ROBERT BOSCH HOSPITAL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARM; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; ERGONOMICS; FALLING; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; NOTE; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATELLA FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER FRACTURE; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 84871941977     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)61724-3     Document Type: Note

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