title: Incidence of injuries due to accidental fall: a life span study for the period 1971-1995.
abstract: The incidence of accidental fall in 67,436 trauma patients was investigated for the period 1971-1995. Over-all a decrease in incidence was found from 1976 through 1995; however, notwithstanding the over-all picture a strong age-specific increase in the incidence was observed in persons of 80 years and over from 1981-1985 through 1991-1995.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, University Hospital Groningen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kingma
mesh_terms: D000058:Accidental Falls / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D015994:Incidence; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands / Q000453:epidemiology; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000453:epidemiology*