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Clinical differences among the elderly admitted to the emergency department for accidental or unexplained falls and syncope
It is difficult to distinguish unexplained falls (UFs) from accidental falls (AFs) or syncope in older people. This study was designed to compare patients referred to the emergency department (ED) for AFs, UFs or syncope. Data from a longitudinal study on adverse drug events diagnosed at the ED (ANC...
Autores principales: | Pasqualetti, Giuseppe, Calsolaro, Valeria, Bini, Giacomo, Dell’Agnello, Umberto, Tuccori, Marco, Marino, Alessandra, Capogrosso-Sansone, Alice, Rafanelli, Martina, Santini, Massimo, Orsitto, Eugenio, Ungar, Andrea, Blandizzi, Corrado, Monzani, Fabio |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Dove Medical Press
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5399985/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28450779 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CIA.S127824 |
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