The predictive power of geographic health care utilization for unintentional fatal fall rates

• Main Authors: Matthew Gordon Crowson (Author), Jason A. Beyea (Author), Justin Cottrell (Author), Faisal Karmali (Author), Giovanni Lampasona (Author), James E. Saunders (Author), Richard F. Lewis (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-02-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background Falls are the leading cause of fatal and nonfatal injuries among adults over 65 years old. The increase in fall mortality rates is likely multifactorial. With a lack of key drivers identified to explain rising rates of death from falls, accurate predictive modelling can be challe...