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Emergency Medical Service Attendances for Adults with Repeat Falls in Western Australia: A State-Wide Retrospective Cohort Study

Published:2024-04-15 Issue: Volume: Page:1-9
ISSN:1090-3127
Container-title:Prehospital Emergency Care
language:en
Short-container-title:Prehospital Emergency Care

Author:

Watkins Paige M.¹^ORCID,Buzzacott Peter¹,Tohira Hideo¹²,Majewski David¹,Hill Anne-Marie³,Brink Deon¹,Brits Rudi⁴,Finn Judith¹²⁴⁵

Affiliation:

1. Prehospital Resuscitation and Emergency Care Research Unit (PRECRU), Curtin School of Nursing, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia, Australia

2. Emergency Medicine, Medical School, the University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

3. School of Allied Health, University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia, Australia

4. St John Western Australia, Belmont, Western Australia, Australia

5. School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Funder

2020 Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) Stipend Scholarship

National Health and Medical Council of Australia Investigator

Royal Perth Hospital Research Foundation

NHMRC

St John Western Australia Ambulance Service

Publisher

Informa UK Limited

Link

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/10903127.2024.2338915

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