Transcultural adaptation of the Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool

• Main Authors: Maria Carmen Martinez (Author), Viviane Ernesto Iwamoto (Author), Maria do Rosário Dias de Oliveira Latorre (Author), Adriana Moreira Noronha (Author), Ana Paula de Sousa Oliveira (Author), Carlos Eduardo Alves Cardoso (Author), Ifigenia Augusta Braga Marques (Author), Patrícia Vendramim (Author), Paula Cristina Lopes (Author), Thais Helena Saes de Sant'Ana (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Universidade de São Paulo.
• Subjects: article
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ABSTRACT Objective: to perform the transcultural adaptation and content validity analysis of the Johns Hopkins Fall Risk Assessment Tool to assess both fall risk and fall-related injury risk for hospitalized elderly in Brazil. Method: the transcultural adaptation consisted of translating the scale t...