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Two-Item Fall Screening Tool Identifies Older Adults at Increased Risk of Falling after Emergency Department Visit
INTRODUCTION: Few emergency department (ED)-specific fall-risk screening tools exist. The goals of this study were to externally validate Tiedemann et al’s two-item, ED-specific fall screening tool and test handgrip strength to determine their ability to predict future falls. We hypothesized that bo...
Autores principales: | Solie, Christopher J., Swanson, Morgan B., Harland, Kari, Blum, Christopher, Kin, Kevin, Mohr, Nicholas |
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
2020
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7514384/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32970586 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2020.5.46991 |
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