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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
The Significance of Selected Medical and Environmental Factors in The Etiology of Falling Incidents Among The Hospitalized Elderly: A Relative Risk Assessment
Abstract
dc:descriptionThe leading cause of traumatic disability and death by injury in the elderly population is falls. While the elderly most often fall at home, the falls which occur in the hospital are more amenable to scientific investigation. Within the hospital setting, detailed records of circumstances surrounding falls permit various approaches to the investigation and understanding of how falls occur. However, a study of falls among the hospitalized elderly can only be generalized to a fraction of the elderly population who become acutely ill and require hospitalization.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Health and Safety Education
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2014
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Sorock, Gary Steven
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (UMI)AAI8127696
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/67972