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Falls in young, middle-aged and older community dwelling adults: perceived cause, environmental factors and injury

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, August 2005
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  • In the top 5% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (98th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (90th percentile)

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6 news outlets
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1 Wikipedia page

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Title
Falls in young, middle-aged and older community dwelling adults: perceived cause, environmental factors and injury
Published in
BMC Public Health, August 2005
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-5-86
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Authors

Laura A Talbot, Robin J Musiol, Erica K Witham, E Jeffery Metter

Abstract

Falls in older people have been characterized extensively in the literature, however little has been reported regarding falls in middle-aged and younger adults. The objective of this paper is to describe the perceived cause, environmental influences and resultant injuries of falls in 1497 young (20-45 years), middle-aged (46-65 years) and older (> 65 years) men and women from the Baltimore Longitudinal Study on Aging.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Canada 3 <1%
Brazil 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
United Kingdom 1 <1%
United States 1 <1%
Unknown 434 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 81 18%
Student > Master 62 14%
Student > Bachelor 56 13%
Researcher 39 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 29 7%
Other 87 20%
Unknown 87 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 95 22%
Nursing and Health Professions 70 16%
Engineering 43 10%
Sports and Recreations 40 9%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 18 4%
Other 64 15%
Unknown 111 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 60. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 02 June 2023.
All research outputs
#639,289
of 23,920,246 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#628
of 15,554 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#694
of 59,066 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#2
of 11 outputs
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