Prevention of fall incidents in patients with a high risk of falling: design of a randomised controlled trial with an economic evaluation of the effect of multidisciplinary transmural care

BACKGROUND: Annually, about 30% of the persons of 65 years and older falls at least once and 15% falls at least twice. Falls often result in serious injuries, such as fractures. Therefore, the prevention of accidental falls is necessary. The aim is to describe the design of a study that evaluates th...

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Autores principales: Peeters, Geeske MEE, de Vries, Oscar J, Elders, Petra JM, Pluijm, Saskia MF, Bouter, Lex M, Lips, Paul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2007
Materias:
Study Protocol
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1933430/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17605771
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-7-15

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