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Use of fall risk increasing drugs in residents of retirement villages: a pilot study of long term care and retirement home residents in Ontario, Canada

BACKGROUND: Falls continue to be a problem for older people in long-term care (LTC) and retirement home (RH) settings and are associated with significant morbidity and health care use. Fall-risk increasing drugs (FRIDs) are known to increase fall risk and represent modifiable risk factors. There are...

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Autores principales: Rojas-Fernandez, Carlos, Dadfar, Farzan, Wong, Andrea, Brown, Susan G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4606840/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26467915
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13104-015-1557-2