Falls in old people at home: intrinsic versus environmental factors in causation.

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• Publication year

  1983

• Venue

  Public Health

• Publication date

  1983-03-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1016/S0033-3506(83)80008-0PMID 6856729
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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