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A two-question tool to assess the risk of repeated falls in the elderly

INTRODUCTION: Older adults’ perception of their own risk of fall has never been included into screening tools. The goal of this study was to evaluate the predictive validity of questions on subjects’ self-perception of their own risk of fall. METHODS: This prospective study was conducted on a probab...

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Autores principales: Rodríguez-Molinero, Alejandro, Gálvez-Barrón, César, Narvaiza, Leire, Miñarro, Antonio, Ruiz, Jorge, Valldosera, Esther, Gonzalo, Natalia, Ng, Thalia, Sanguino, María Jesús, Yuste, Antonio
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5425174/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28489888
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0176703