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The role of geriatric assessment tests and anthropometric measurements in identifying the risk of falls in elderly nursing home residents

Bulent Yardimci, Sinan N. Aran, Ismail Ozkaya, Sevki M. Aksoy, Tarik Demir, Gulsen Tezcan and Aysegul Y. Kaptanoglu
Saudi Medical Journal October 2016, 37 (10) 1101-1108; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.15205
Bulent Yardimci
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Sinan N. Aran
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Ismail Ozkaya
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Sevki M. Aksoy
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Tarik Demir
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Gulsen Tezcan
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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Aysegul Y. Kaptanoglu
From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
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vol. 37 no. 10 1101-1108
DOI 
https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2016.10.15205
PubMed 
27652361

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Saudi Medical Journal
Online ISSN 
1658-3175
History 
  • Received April 3, 2016
  • Accepted June 29, 2016
  • Published online October 1, 2016.

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Copyright: © Saudi Medical Journal This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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  1. Bulent Yardimci, MD⇑,
  2. Sinan N. Aran, MD,
  3. Ismail Ozkaya, PhD,
  4. Sevki M. Aksoy, MD,
  5. Tarik Demir, MD,
  6. Gulsen Tezcan, MD and
  7. Aysegul Y. Kaptanoglu, MD
  1. From the Department of Internal Medicine (Yardimci), Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, the Department of Internal Medicine (Aran), Istanbul Florence Nightingale Hospital, the Department of General Surgery (Aksoy), Bahcesehir University Medical Faculty, the Department of Nursing Home (Demir, Tezcan), Balikli Rum Hospital, Istanbul, the Department of Nutrition and Dietetics (Ozkaya), Kirklareli University Health School, Kırklareli, and the Department of the Health Management Section (Kaptanoglu), Faculty of Health Sciences, Trakya University, Edirne, Turkey
  1. Address correspondence and reprint request to: Asst. Prof. Bulent Yardimci, Department of Internal Medicine, Division of General Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Istanbul Bilim University, Istanbul, Turkey. E-mail: bulentyardimci{at}yahoo.com
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Saudi Medical Journal Oct 2016, 37 (10) 1101-1108; DOI: 10.15537/smj.2016.10.15205
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