Risk of fall in patients with COPD - Hakamy A, Bolton CE, Gibson JE, McKeever TM.

A matched cohort study was conducted to determine the incidence of falls in patients following a diagnosis of COPD using a UK primary care database. 44 400 patients with COPD and 175  545 non-COPD subjects were identified. The incidence rate of fall per 1...
Source: SafetyLit - Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Ergonomics, Human Factors, Anthropometrics, Physiology Source Type: news