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Prediction of falls using a risk assessment tool in the acute care setting

BACKGROUND: The British STRATIFY tool was previously developed to predict falls in hospital. Although the tool has several strengths, certain limitations exist which may not allow generalizability to a Canadian setting. Thus, we tested the STRATIFY tool with some modification and re-weighting of ite...

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Autores principales: Papaioannou, Alexandra, Parkinson, William, Cook, Richard, Ferko, Nicole, Coker, Esther, Adachi, Jonathan D
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2004
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC333435/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/14736342
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1741-7015-2-1