Accidents in the institutionalized elderly: A risk analysis

Marie-Louise Svensson,Åke Rundgren,M Larsson,Anders Odén,V. Sund,Sten Landahl

Accidents in the institutionalized elderly: A risk analysis

1991

Marie-Louise Svensson
Åke Rundgren
M Larsson
Anders Odén
V. Sund
Sten Landahl

Among a total of 4,862 admittances to a Swedish geriatric hospital and its associated nursing homes, 827 accidents occurred in 588 patients during one year.

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Emergency medicine
Suicide prevention
Human factors and ergonomics
Physical therapy
Occupational safety and health
Injury prevention
Risk analysis (business)
Medicine
nursing homes
poison control
geriatrics gerontology
Gerontology

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