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First Fall-Related Injuries Requiring Hospitalization Increase the Risk of Recurrent Injurious Falls: A Nationwide Cohort Study in Taiwan

OBJECTIVES: Recurrent falls not only have risk factors different from those of single falls but also have less favorable outcomes. The aim of our study was to determine the association between the injury characteristics of a first fall and the likelihood of recurrent injurious falls in a cohort of h...

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Autores principales: Lam, Carlos, Kang, Jiunn-Horng, Lin, Hsiao-Yu, Huang, Hung-Chang, Wu, Chia-Chieh, Chen, Ping-Ling
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763332/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26900917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0149887