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Modified bathroom scale and balance assessment: a comparison with clinical tests

Frailty and detection of fall risk are major issues in preventive gerontology. A simple tool frequently used in daily life, a bathroom scale (balance quality tester: BQT), was modified to obtain information on the balance of 84 outpatients consulting at a geriatric clinic. The results computed from...

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Autores principales: Duchêne, Jacques, Hewson, David, Rumeau, Pierre
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4835412/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27217987
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s40064-016-2086-8