How dangerous are falls in old people at home?

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• Publication year

  1981

• Venue

  British medical journal

• Publication date

  1981-01-24

• Fields of study

  Medicine

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.1136/BMJ.282.6260.266PMID 6779979PMCID PMC1504022
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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