A two-question tool to assess the risk of repeated falls in the elderly.

Older adults' perception of their own risk of fall has never been included into screening tools. The goal of this study was to evaluate the predictive validity of questions on subjects' self-perception of their own risk of fall.This prospective study was conducted on a probabilistic sample...

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Main Authors: Alejandro Rodríguez-Molinero, César Gálvez-Barrón, Leire Narvaiza, Antonio Miñarro, Jorge Ruiz, Esther Valldosera, Natalia Gonzalo, Thalia Ng, María Jesús Sanguino, Antonio Yuste
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5425174?pdf=render