Frailty predicts short-term incidence of future falls among British community-dwelling older people: a prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND: Although population-based studies have shown frailty predicted future falls, their follow-up periods were one year or longer and short-term fall risks associated with frailty are unknown. METHODS: A prospective cohort study nested within a randomised controlled trial was conducted to exa...

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Autores principales: Kojima, Gotaro, Kendrick, Denise, Skelton, Dawn A., Morris, Richard W., Gawler, Sheena, Iliffe, Steve
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26625940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0152-7

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4667521/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26625940
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-015-0152-7

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