Web-based system for assessing risk factors for falls in community-dwelling elderly people using the Analytic Hierarchy Process

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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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Main Authors:	Pecchia, Leandro, Bath, Peter A., Pendleton, Neil, Bracale, Marcello
Format:	Article
Published:	Creative Decisions Foundation (CDF) 2010
Subjects:	AHP web falls elderly risk of falls
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/1577/

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