Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process
Falls occur frequently among older people and represent the most common cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in later life. Preventing falls is an important way to reduce injuries, hospitalizations, and injury-related morbidity and mortality among older people. The research literature has...
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| author | Pecchia, Leandro Bath, Peter A. Pendleton, Neil Bracale, Marcello |
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| description | Falls occur frequently among older people and represent the most common cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in later life. Preventing falls is an important way to reduce injuries, hospitalizations, and injury-related morbidity and mortality among older people. The research literature has identified hundreds of risk factors for falls among elderly people. Prioritizing risk factors for falls is useful for designing effective and efficacious prevention programs.
The aim of this study was to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process to develop a hierarchy of risk factors for falls based on the knowledge and experience of experts working in this field. |
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| spelling | nottingham-15772020-05-04T20:24:43Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1577/ Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process Pecchia, Leandro Bath, Peter A. Pendleton, Neil Bracale, Marcello Falls occur frequently among older people and represent the most common cause of injury-related morbidity and mortality in later life. Preventing falls is an important way to reduce injuries, hospitalizations, and injury-related morbidity and mortality among older people. The research literature has identified hundreds of risk factors for falls among elderly people. Prioritizing risk factors for falls is useful for designing effective and efficacious prevention programs. The aim of this study was to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process to develop a hierarchy of risk factors for falls based on the knowledge and experience of experts working in this field. Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF) 2010-12 Article PeerReviewed Pecchia, Leandro, Bath, Peter A., Pendleton, Neil and Bracale, Marcello (2010) Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process. Internationa Journal of the Analytic Hierarchy Process, 2 (2). AHP web falls elderly risk of falls http://www.ijahp.org/index.php/IJAHP/article/view/61 |
| spellingShingle | AHP web falls elderly risk of falls Pecchia, Leandro Bath, Peter A. Pendleton, Neil Bracale, Marcello Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| title | Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| title_full | Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| title_fullStr | Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| title_full_unstemmed | Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| title_short | Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process |
| title_sort | web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the analytic hierarchy process |
| topic | AHP web falls elderly risk of falls |
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