Females fall more from heights but males survive less among a geriatric population: insights from an American level 1 trauma center

BACKGROUND: Approximately one third of subjects ≥65 year old and half of subjects ≥80 years old sustain a fall injury each year. We aimed to study the outcomes of fall from a height (FFH) among older adults. We hypothesized that in an elderly population, fall-related injury and mortality are the sam...

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Autores principales: El-Menyar, Ayman, Tilley, Elizabeth, Al-Thani, Hassan, Latifi, Rifat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31464582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1252-6

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6716940/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31464582
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12877-019-1252-6

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