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Investigating multisite pain as a predictor of self-reported falls and falls requiring health care use in an older population: A prospective cohort study

Older people are continuing to fall despite fall prevention guidelines targeting known falls’ risk factors. Multisite pain is a potential novel falls’ risk factor requiring further exploration. This study hypothesises that: (1) an increasing number of pain sites and widespread pain predicts self-rep...

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Autores principales: Welsh, Victoria K., Mallen, Christian D., Ogollah, Reuben, Wilkie, Ross, McBeth, John
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6905547/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31826023
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0226268