Emergency medical service attendances for adults with repeat falls in Western Australia: a state-wide retrospective cohort study - Watkins PM, Buzzacott P, Tohira H, Majewski D, Hill AM, Brink D, Brits R, Finn J.

OBJECTIVES: The risk of falls increases with age and often requires an emergency medical service (EMS) response. We compared the characteristics of patients attended by EMS in response to repeat falls within 30 days and 12 months of their first EMS-attende...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Age: Elder Adults Source Type: news