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A fall is defined by WHO as “an event which results in a person coming to rest inadvertently on the ground or floor or other lower level” [1].
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Banerjee, J., Jónsdóttir, A.B. (2018). Falls Presenting in the Emergency Department. In: Nickel, C., Bellou, A., Conroy, S. (eds) Geriatric Emergency Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19318-2_9
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