Risk factors of falls in inpatients and their practical use in identifying high-risk persons at admission: Fukushima Medical University Hospital cohort study

OBJECTIVES: To clarify the risk factors for falls in hospital settings and to propose the use of such factors to identify high-risk persons at admission. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study. SETTING: Fukushima Medical University Hospital, Japan, from August 2008 and September 2009. PARTICIPANTS: 9957 a...

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Autores principales: Hayakawa, Takehito, Hashimoto, Shigeatsu, Kanda, Hideyuki, Hirano, Noriko, Kurihara, Yumi, Kawashima, Takako, Fukushima, Tetsuhito
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2014
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Epidemiology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25232563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005385

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4139640/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25232563
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005385

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