Falls in hospital and new placement in a nursing home among older people hospitalized with acute illness

Basic, David; Hartwell, Tabitha

doi:10.2147/cia.s90296

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Falls in hospital and new placement in a nursing home among older people hospitalized with acute illness

Published in Clinical Interventions in Aging • Oct 1, 2015

Authors:

David Basic

Tabitha Hartwell

Abstract

PURPOSE: To examine the association between falls in hospital and new placement in a nursing home among older people hospitalized with acute illness. MATERIALS AND METHODS: This prospective cohort study of 2,945 consecutive patients discharged alive from an acute geriatric medicine service used mult...

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Medicine

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