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Volume 8, Issue 5 , Pages 300-306 , June 2007

A Flowchart System to Improve Fall Data Documentation in a Long-Term Care Institution: A Pilot Study

This paper was presented in part at the American Geriatrics Society Meeting, 2005, Orlando, Florida.

Manuel Montero-Odasso, MD, PhD
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Lawson Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
- Maimonides Geriatric Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- M.M.-O. held a clinical and research fellowship award from the Maimonides Geriatric Centre Montreal, Quebec, Canada, and from the Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University at the time the study was conducted.
- Address correspondence to Manuel Montero-Odasso, MD, PhD, Parkwood Hospital, Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Western Ontario, 801 Commissioners Road East, Room A-283, London, ON, N6C 5J1, Canada.
Paula Levinson, NBScN, GNC(CA)P
- Maimonides Geriatric Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Brian Gore, MD
- Maimonides Geriatric Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Dipl Epid
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada
- Lawson Research Institute, London, Ontario, Canada
- Maimonides Geriatric Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Lucie Tremblay, N MSc
- Maimonides Geriatric Centre, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Howard Bergman, MD
- Division of Geriatric Medicine, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Research Group, McGill University and Université de Montréal Research Group on Services for Older Persons, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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