Do older adults with cancer fall more often? a comparative analysis of falls in those with and without cancer

Oncology Nursing Forum

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Spoelstra, Sandra L ^a   Given, Barbara A ^a   Schutte, Debra L ^a   Sikorskii, Alla ^b   You, Mei ^c   Given, Charles W ^d  

^a College of Nursing ^*  (United States)

^b Department of Statistics and Probability ^*  (United States)

^c Statistician in the College of Nursing   (United States)

^d MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NURSING; ONCOLOGY NURSING; PREVALENCE; REGISTER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AGING; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MICHIGAN; NEOPLASMS; ONCOLOGIC NURSING; PREVALENCE; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 84874590499     PISSN: 0190535X     EISSN: 15380688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1188/13.ONF.E69-E78     Document Type: Article

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