The costs of fatal and non-fatal falls among older adults

By J. Stevens, P. Corso, E. Finkelstein, T. Miller. Injury Prevention, 2006

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Subfields: Physical Therapy, Sports Therapy and Rehabilitation, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, Surgery

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Citations in the corpus

• Smart Health Monitoring Systems: An Overview of Design and Modeling (2013, background): “[57] conducted a study to estimate the cost of fatal and non-fatal falls amongst older adults, and reported direct medical costs totalling $0.”
• The Medical Costs of Fatal Falls and Fall Injuries among Older Adults (2018, positive): “5 billion (adjusted to 2015 dollars) and validates the approach used here.(13,25) Previous studies have used methodology similar to that of the current study and estimated Medicare costs for other causes of disease that are comparable with ours.”