Withdrawal of Fall-Risk-Increasing Drugs in Older Persons
- 1 January 2007
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Drugs & Aging
- Vol. 24 (8) , 691-699
- https://doi.org/10.2165/00002512-200724080-00006
Abstract
Previously, we have shown that withdrawal of fall-risk-increasing drugs (FRIDs) as a single intervention reduces falls incidence. Improvement of mobility may be an important factor in this finding and we therefore tested whether mobility tests improved after FRID withdrawal.Keywords
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