Association of injurious falls with disability outcomes and nursing home admissions in community-living older persons

Little is known about the deleterious effects of injurious falls relative to those of other disabling conditions or whether these effects are driven largely by hip fractures. From a cohort of 754 community-living elders of New Haven, Connecticut, we matched 122 hospitalizations for an injurious fall...

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Published in:	American journal of epidemiology Vol. 178; no. 3; p. 418
Main Authors:	Gill, Thomas M, Murphy, Terrence E, Gahbauer, Evelyne A, Allore, Heather G
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	United States 01.08.2013
Subjects:	Accidental Falls - statistics & numerical data Activities of Daily Living Aged, 80 and over Case-Control Studies Cohort Studies Disabled Persons - statistics & numerical data Female Hip Fractures - epidemiology Hospitalization - statistics & numerical data Humans Length of Stay Logistic Models Male Nursing Homes - utilization Prospective Studies Treatment Outcome Wounds and Injuries - classification Wounds and Injuries - epidemiology accidental falls aged cohort studies activities of daily living nursing homes
ISSN:	1476-6256, 1476-6256
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