Objective: To investigate differences between hospitals in clinical management of patients
admitted with fractured hip and to relate these to mortality at 90 days. Design: A prospective …

Background: most people in contemporary western society die of the chronic diseases of
old age. Whilst palliative care is appropriate for elderly patients with chronic, non-malignant …

Family caregivers are crucial for supporting home death. We reviewed published qualitative
research on home-based family caregiving at end of life (1998—2008), synthesizing key …

The changing context of palliative care over the last decade highlights the importance of
recent research on home-based family caregiving at the end of life. This article reports on a …

Purpose: Our study identified factors common to a variety of populations and settings that
may promote or inhibit uptake and adherence to falls-related interventions. Design and …

Research indicates that fewer people are able to die at home than would wish to do so.
Furthermore the ability to die at home is unequally distributed depending on patient …

Purpose. To carry out a cross-cultural validation of the Falls Efficacy Scale International (FES-I),
a 16-item modified version of the Falls Efficacy Scale that was developed to assess both …

The aim of this analysis was to determine the influence of lifestyle, anthropometric and
reproductive factors on the subsequent risk of incident vertebral fracture in men and women aged …

The introduction of the randomized controlled trial (RCT) is normally attributed to Sir Austin
Bradford-Hill. 1 Since then it has become the ‘gold standard’for much investigation in the …

Die Deutsche Version der Falls Efficacy Scale-International Version (FES-I) Page 1 Z Gerontol
Geriat 4 2006 N. Dias GIJM Kempen CJ Todd N. Beyer E. Freiberger C. Piot-Ziegler L. …