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Intervention to prevent further falls in older people who call an ambulance as a result of a fall: a protocol for the iPREFER randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: An increasing number of falls result in an emergency call and the subsequent dispatch of paramedics. In the absence of physical injury, abnormal physiological parameters or change in usual functional status, it could be argued that routine conveyance by ambulance to the Emergency Departm...

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Autores principales: Mikolaizak, A Stefanie, Simpson, Paul M, Tiedemann, Anne, Lord, Stephen R, Caplan, Gideon A, Bendall, Jason C, Howard, Kirsten, Close, Jacqueline CT
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/PMC3849451/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24070456
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-13-360