The FIM(R) instrument to identify patients at risk of falling in geriatric wards: a 10-year retrospective study | Zendy

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The FIM(R) instrument to identify patients at risk of falling in geriatric wards: a 10-year retrospective study

Author(s) -

Nicolas Petitpierre,

Andrea Trombetti,

Ian Carroll,

JeanPierre Michel,

François R. Herrmann

Publication year - 2010

Publication title -

age and ageing

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.014

H-Index - 143

eISSN - 1468-2834

pISSN - 0002-0729

DOI - 10.1093/ageing/afq010

Subject(s) - medicine , functional independence measure , retrospective cohort study , falling (accident) , incidence (geometry) , predictive value , receiver operating characteristic , emergency medicine , risk assessment , physical therapy , activities of daily living , physics , optics , computer security , environmental health , computer science

he main objective was to evaluate if the admission functional independence measure (FIM) score could be used to predict the risk of falls in geriatric inpatients.

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