- ►annals.org LZ Rubenstein, KR Josephson, AS Robbins - Annals of internal medicine, 1994 - Am Coll Physicians Results: The mean incidence of falls in nursing homes is 1.5 falls per bed per
year (range, 0.2 to 3.6 falls). The most common precipitating causes include
gait and balance disorders, weakness, dizziness, environmental hazards, ... Cited by 386 - Related articles - All 4 versions
[CITATION] Falls and their prevention
LZ Rubenstein, KR Josephson, AS Robbins - Medical Care of the Nursing Home Resident: What …, 1996 - Amer College of Physicians Cited by 1 - Related articles
WA Ray, JA Taylor, KG Meador, PB Thapa, AK … - Jama, 1997 - Am Med Assoc CONTEXT: Falls are a major health problem in nursing homes, but no interventions
have been shown to prevent falls in nursing home residents. OBJECTIVE: To
evaluate an intervention program designed to prevent falls and associated ... Cited by 215 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 4 versions
[CITATION] Clinical Research on Falls in the Nursing Home
LZ RUBENSTEIN, KR JOSEPHSON - Improving care in the nursing home: comprehensive …, 1993 - Sage Publications, Inc Cited by 1 - Related articles
LZ Rubenstein, KR Josephson - Clinics in geriatric medicine, 2002 - Elsevier Falls and syncope are two common and interrelated geriatric syndromes that cause
considerable mortality and morbidity among older adults. Multiple causes and
predisposing risk factors have been identified for both falls and syncope, ... Cited by 208 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
LZ Rubenstein, AS Robbins, KR Josephson, … - Annals of internal medicine, 1990 - Am Coll Physicians Objective: To measure the effects of a specialized postfall assessment intended
to detect causes and underlying risk factors for falls, and to recommend
preventive and therapeutic interventions. ... Setting: A long-term ... Cited by 267 - Related articles - All 2 versions
- ►motionhealth.com [PDF] AS Robbins, LZ Rubenstein, KR Josephson, … - Archives of internal medicine, 1989 - archinte.highwire.org \s=b\A study was performed to identify and rank risk factors for falling among
populations of institutionalized (fallers, N=79, nonfallers, N=70) and
noninstitutionalized (fallers, N =34, non- fallers, N = 34) elderly ... Cited by 319 - Related articles - All 10 versions
DK Kiely, DP Kiel, AB Burrows, LA Lipsitz - Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, 1998 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov OBJECTIVES: To develop a fall risk model that can be used to identify
prospectively nursing home residents at risk for falling. The secondary
objective was to determine whether the nursing home environment ... Cited by 147 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
ME Tinetti, M Speechley - New England journal of medicine, 1989 - content.nejm.org Original Article from The New England Journal of Medicine --
Prevention of falls among the elderly.
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ME Tinetti, T Franklin Williams, R Mayewski - The American Journal of Medicine, 1986 - Elsevier The present study was designed to identify prospectively the individual chronic
characteristics associated with falling among elderly persons and to test the
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