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Predicting the risk of falling – efficacy of a risk assessment tool compared to nurses' judgement: a cluster-randomised controlled trial [ISRCTN37794278]
BACKGROUND: Older people living in nursing homes are at high risk of falling because of their general frailty and multiple pathologies. Prediction of falls might lead to an efficient allocation of preventive measures. Although several tools to assess the risk of falling have been developed, their im...
Autores principales: | Meyer, Gabriele, Köpke, Sascha, Bender, Ralf, Mühlhauser, Ingrid |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2005
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1312310/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16285880 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-5-14 |
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