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Effectiveness of preventive home visits in reducing the risk of falls in old age: a randomized controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Falls in older people are a major public health issue, but the underlying causes are complex. We sought to evaluate the effectiveness of preventive home visits as a multifactorial, individualized strategy to reduce falls in community-dwelling older people. METHODS: Data were derived from...

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Autores principales: Luck, Tobias, Motzek, Tom, Luppa, Melanie, Matschinger, Herbert, Fleischer, Steffen, Sesselmann, Yves, Roling, Gudrun, Beutner, Katrin, König, Hans-Helmut, Behrens, Johann, Riedel-Heller, Steffi G
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove Medical Press 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3684143/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23788832
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S43284