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Using latent class analysis to model prescription medications in the measurement of falling among a community elderly population

BACKGROUND: Falls among the elderly are a major public health concern. Therefore, the possibility of a modeling technique which could better estimate fall probability is both timely and needed. Using biomedical, pharmacological and demographic variables as predictors, latent class analysis (LCA) is...

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Autores principales: Hardigan, Patrick C, Schwartz, David C, Hardigan, William D
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3673854/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23705639
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-13-60