Different risk-increasing drugs in recurrent versus single fallers: Are recurrent fallers a distinct population?

Drugs and Aging

Volumn 30, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 845-851

  Askari, Marjan ^a   Eslami, Saied ^a   Scheffer, Alice C ^a   Medlock, Stephanie ^a   De Rooij, Sophia E ^a   Van Der Velde, Nathalie ^a   Abu Hanna, Ameen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGENTS ACTING ON THE EYE; ANALGESIC AGENT; ANESTHETIC AGENT; ANTIANEMIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTIPARKINSON AGENT; ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; ATYPICAL ANTIPSYCHOTIC AGENT; BETA ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; BLOOD SUBSTITUTE; CARDIAC AGENT; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT; HYPNOTIC SEDATIVE AGENT; LAXATIVE; NOSE DROPS; VITAMIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FALL RISK; FALLING; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POPULATION STRUCTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECURRENT DISEASE; SELF REPORT;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; POLYPHARMACY; RECURRENCE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RISK;

EID: 84890211616     PISSN: 1170229X     EISSN: 11791969     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40266-013-0110-z     Document Type: Article

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