Pedestrian falls: A review of the literature and future research directions.

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• Publication year

  2017

• Venue

  Journal of Safety Research

• Publication date

  2017-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.jsr.2017.06.020PMID 28882270
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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