Meta-analysis of Multifactorial Interventions to Prevent Falls of Older Adults in Care Facilities

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¹ Geriatrics and Geriatric Emergency Care, Italian National Research Center on Aging, Ancona, Italy.
² Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
³ Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, UK.
⁴ Division of Geriatrics, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Caja, Madrid, Spain.

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Joseph M Rimland et al. J Am Geriatr Soc. 2015 Sep.

. 2015 Sep;63(9):1972-3.

doi: 10.1111/jgs.13622.

¹ Geriatrics and Geriatric Emergency Care, Italian National Research Center on Aging, Ancona, Italy.
² Division of Geriatrics, Department of Medicine, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
³ Department of Medicine for the Elderly, Woodend Hospital, Aberdeen, UK.
⁴ Division of Geriatrics, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Caja, Madrid, Spain.

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