Dissemination of an evidence-based multicomponent fall risk-assessment and -management strategy throughout a geographic area.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on April 01, 2005

Authors

Dorothy I Baker1, Mary B King, Richard H Fortinsky, Louis G Graff, Margaret Gottschalk, Denise Acampora, Jeanette Preston, Cynthia J Brown, Mary E Tinetti

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

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