Trends and Characteristics of Emergency Department Visits for Fall-Related Injuries in Older Adults, 2003–2010

INTRODUCTION: One third of older adults fall each year, and falls are costly to both the patient in terms of morbidity and mortality and to the health system. Given that falls are a preventable cause of injury, our objective was to understand the characteristics and trends of emergency department (E...

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Veröffentlicht in:West J Emerg Med
Hauptverfasser: Shankar, Kalpana N., Liu, Shan W., Ganz, David A.
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2017
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Geriatrics
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5576613/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28874929
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2017.5.33615
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