Medications associated with falls in older people: systematic review of publications from a recent 5-year period

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• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology

• Publication date

  2015-09-26

• Fields of study

  Medicine

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  DOI 10.1007/s00228-015-1955-3PMID 26407688
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