Fall and Injury Prevention
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Summary
There is a large body of research that investigates fall and injury prevention across the care continuum, and targeted risk evaluation in the emergency department and management of vitamin D deficiency appear to be promising preventive methods in the community setting.
- Type
- article
- Published
- 2006-01-01
- Cited by
- 206
- References
- 199
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- https://openalex.org/W1580982348
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- https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:22738183
Keywords
Staffing, Medicine, Fall prevention, Medical emergency, Injury prevention
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