A combination of clinical balance measures and FRAX® to improve identification of high-risk fallers

BACKGROUND: The FRAX® algorithm quantifies a patient’s 10-year probability of a hip or major osteoporotic fracture without taking an individual’s balance into account. Balance measures assess the functional ability of an individual and the FRAX® algorithm is a model that integrates the individual pa...

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Autores principales: Najafi, David A., Dahlberg, Leif E., Hansson, Eva Ekvall
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27142632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0266-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27142632
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-016-0266-6

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