Cohort study of institutionalized elderly people: fall risk factors from the nursing diagnosis

Objective: to determine the incidence of falls in elderly residents of long-stay institutions of the Federal District, to identify the aspects involved in the falls, in terms of risk factors, from the application of scales and the Taxonomy II of NANDA-I, and to define the level of accuracy with its...

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Main Authors: Karine Marques Costa dos Reis, Cristine Alves Costa de Jesus
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2015-12-01
Series:Revista Latino-Americana de Enfermagem
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0104-11692015000601130&lng=en&tlng=en