Risk factors associated with visiting or not visiting the accident & emergency department after a fall
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Risk factors associated with visiting or not visiting the accident & emergency department after a fall
BACKGROUND Little is known about the prevalence of modifiable risk factors of falling in elderly persons with a fall-history who do not visit the Accident and Emergency (A&E) Department after one or more falls. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of modifiable risk factors in a population that visited the A&E Department after a fall (A&E group) and in a community-dwellin...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-286