The ‘Aachen Falls Prevention Scale’ - development of a tool for self-assessment of elderly patients at risk for ground level falls

BACKGROUND: The incidence of falls in the elderly population is difficult to determine and therefore potentially underestimated. Screening algorithms usually have in common that the evaluation is undertaken by trained individuals in a hospital setting. This leads to the inclusion of a high proportio...

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Autores principales: Pape, Hans-Christoph, Schemmann, Ulrike, Foerster, Juergen, Knobe, Matthias
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4328308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-014-0055-0

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4328308/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25685196
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13037-014-0055-0

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