A pilot study for development of a novel tool for clinical decision making to identify fallers among ophthalmic patients

BACKGROUND: Falls in the elderly is a major problem. Although falls have a multifactorial etiology, a commonly cited cause of falls in older people is poor vision. This study proposes a method to discriminate fallers and non-fallers among ophthalmic patients, based on data-mining algorithms applied...

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Autores principales: Melillo, P, Orrico, A, Attanasio, M, Rossi, S, Pecchia, L, Chirico, F, Testa, F, Simonelli, F
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/PMC4705496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26391731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-15-S3-S6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4705496/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26391731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6947-15-S3-S6

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