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Brief composite mobility index predicts post-stroke fallers after hospital discharge

INTRODUCTION: Community-dwelling, ambulatory stroke survivors fall at very high rates in the first 3–6 months. Current inpatient clinical assessments for fall risk have inadequate predictive accuracy. We found that a pre-discharge obstacle-crossing test has excellent specificity (83%) but lacks acce...

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Autores principales: Plummer, Prudence, Feld, Jody A., Mercer, Vicki S., Ni, Pengsheng
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9583924/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36275923
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fresc.2022.979824