Feasibility of a new multifactorial fall prevention assessment and personalized intervention among older people recently discharged from the emergency department

Bouke W. HEPKEMA; Lydia KÖSTER; Edwin GELEIJN; Eva VAN DEN ENDE; Lara TAHIR; Johan OSTÉ; Bernard PRINS; Nathalie VAN DER VELDE; Hein VAN HOUT; Prabath W. B. NANAYAKKARA

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0268682

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Feasibility of a new multifactorial fall prevention assessment and personalized intervention among older people recently discharged from the emergency department

Bouke W. HEPKEMA ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: b.hepkema@amsterdamumc.nl

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation VUmc, Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0445-8217

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Lydia KÖSTER,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation VUmc, Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Edwin GELEIJN,

Roles Conceptualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Rehabilitation VUmc, Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Eva VAN DEN ENDE,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section General Internal Medicine Unit Acute Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Lara TAHIR,

Roles Project administration, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section General Internal Medicine Unit Acute Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Johan OSTÉ,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation Senior Policy Advisor Health Care, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Bernard PRINS,

Roles Conceptualization

Affiliation General Practitioner Medical Center Gelderlandplein, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Nathalie VAN DER VELDE,

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Geriatric Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location AMC Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Hein VAN HOUT,

Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of General Practice and Elderly Care Medicine, Amsterdam Public Health Research Institute, Amsterdam UMC, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Prabath W. B. NANAYAKKARA

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Section General Internal Medicine Unit Acute Medicine, Amsterdam UMC Location VUmc, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Feasibility of a new multifactorial fall prevention assessment and personalized intervention among older people recently discharged from the emergency department

Bouke W. HEPKEMA,
Lydia KÖSTER,
Edwin GELEIJN,
Eva VAN DEN ENDE,
Lara TAHIR,
Johan OSTÉ,
Bernard PRINS,
Nathalie VAN DER VELDE,
Hein VAN HOUT,
Prabath W. B. NANAYAKKARA

Published: June 9, 2022
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268682

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