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Editorial
. 2013 Feb 28;2013(2):ED000053.
doi: 10.1002/14651858.ED000053.

Preventing falls in older people: the story of a Cochrane review

Lesley Gillespie  1
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Editorial

Preventing falls in older people: the story of a Cochrane review

Lesley Gillespie. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. .
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Cochrane Reviews of interventions for preventing falls in older people: number of included studies, 1997 to 2012.
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Cochrane Reviews of interventions for preventing falls in older people: number of participants in included studies, 1997 to 2012.
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