Cargando…
Medication and fall injury in the elderly population; do individual demographics, health status and lifestyle matter?
BACKGROUND: The simultaneous use of several medications is an important risk factor for injurious falls in older people. The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of the number of medications dispensed to elderly persons on fall injuries and to assess whether this relationship is explained...
Autores principales: | Helgadóttir, Björg, Laflamme, Lucie, Monárrez-Espino, Joel, Möller, Jette |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
BioMed Central
2014
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4150120/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25151122 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-92 |
Ejemplares similares
-
Patterns in health-related behaviours and fall injuries among older people: a population-based study in Stockholm County, Sweden
por: Helgadottir, Bjorg, et al.
Publicado: (2015) -
Type, Number or Both? A Population-Based Matched Case-Control Study on the Risk of Fall Injuries among Older People and Number of Medications beyond Fall-Inducing Drugs
por: Laflamme, Lucie, et al.
Publicado: (2015) -
The Role of Marital Status in the Association between Benzodiazepines, Psychotropics and Injurious Road Traffic Crashes: A Register-Based Nationwide Study of Senior Drivers in Sweden
por: Johnell, Kristina, et al.
Publicado: (2014) -
New, Occasional, and Frequent Use of Zolpidem or Zopiclone (Alone and in Combination) and the Risk of Injurious Road Traffic Crashes in Older Adult Drivers: A Population-Based Case–Control and Case-Crossover Study
por: Nevriana, Alicia, et al.
Publicado: (2017) -
Occurrence of AH1N1 viral infection and clinical features in symptomatic patients who received medical care during the 2009 influenza pandemic in Central Mexico
por: Castillo-Palencia, Juan Pablo, et al.
Publicado: (2012)