TY - JOUR AU - Neyens, Jacques CL AU - Dijcks, BĂ©atrice PJ AU - van Haastregt, Jolanda CM AU - de Witte, Luc P. AU - van den Heuvel, Wim JA AU - Crebolder, Harry FJM AU - Schols, Jos MGA PY - 2006 DA - 2006/03/21 TI - The development of a multidisciplinary fall risk evaluation tool for demented nursing home patients in the Netherlands JO - BMC Public Health SP - 74 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Demented nursing home patients are at high risk for falls. Falls and associated injuries can have a considerable influence on the autonomy and quality of life of patients. The prevention of falls among demented patients is therefore an important issue. In order to intervene in an efficient way in this group of patients, it is important to systematically evaluate the fall risk profile of each individual patient so that for each patient tailor-made preventive measures can be taken. Therefore, the objective of the present study is to develop a feasible and evidence based multidisciplinary fall risk evaluation tool to be used for tailoring preventive interventions to the needs of individual demented patients. SN - 1471-2458 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1471-2458-6-74 DO - 10.1186/1471-2458-6-74 ID - Neyens2006 ER -