Medication and fall injury in the elderly population; Do individual demographics, health status and lifestyle matter?

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Helgadóttir, Björg ^a   Laflamme, Lucie ^a   Monárrez Espino, Joel ^a   Möller, Jette ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Cohort study; Fall injury; FRIDs; Lifestyle; Medications; Older people

Indexed keywords

PRESCRIPTION DRUG;

AGED; CASE CONTROL STUDY; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FALLING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; VERY ELDERLY;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRESCRIPTION DRUGS; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 84908505768     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-14-92     Document Type: Article

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