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Research Papers

Fear of falling and changed functional ability following hip fracture among community-dwelling elderly people: an explanatory sequential mixed method study

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Pages 2124-2131 | Received 05 Sep 2011, Accepted 05 Mar 2012, Published online: 26 Apr 2012

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