The comparative ability of eight functional mobility tests for predicting falls in community-dwelling older people

Tiedemann, Anne; Shimada, Hiroyuki; Sherrington, Catherine; M. Murray, Susan; R. Lord, Stephen

doi:10.1093/ageing/afn100

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The comparative ability of eight functional mobility tests for predicting falls in community-dwelling older people

Published in Age and Ageing • May 16, 2008

Authors:

Anne Tiedemann

Hiroyuki Shimada

Catherine Sherrington

Abstract

BACKGROUND: numerous tests have been suggested as fall risk indicators. However, the validity of these assessments has not been demonstrated in large representative samples of community-dwelling older people. OBJECTIVE: the objective of this study was to examine the comparative ability and clinical ...

Subject

Medicine

Test (biology)

Receiver operating characteristic

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