Extremity injuries and dementia disproportionately increase the risk for long-term care at older age in an analysis of German Health Insurance routine data for the years 2006 to 2010

BACKGROUND: Extremity injuries (EI) and dementia are important causes of long-term care (LTC), but they can also cause each other and are often present concurrently. Mobility-limiting EI can increase the risk of dementia, and dementia increases the risk for falls, which are often the cause of EI. Wh...

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Autores principales: Barth, Alexander, Vatterrott, Anja, Zhou, Ying, Fink, Anne, Doblhammer, Gabriele
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/PMC5139115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-016-0169-8

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139115/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27980691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s11556-016-0169-8

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