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Patients with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency benefit from multifactorial intervention—a randomised controlled trial

John Davison, John Bond, Pamela Dawson, I. Nicholas Steen, Rose Anne Kenny

Age and Ageing · 2005 · 246 citations · 26 references

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Abstract

Multifactorial intervention is effective at reducing the fall burden in cognitively intact older persons with recurrent falls attending Accident & Emergency, but does not reduce the proportion of subjects still falling.

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