The case files of the Office of the Medical Examiner, Metro Dade County (Miami, Florida, USA), were studied over a three-year period, 1981–83. Those cases in which an elderly person died as a direct or indirect result of a fall were examined and analyzed as to age, race, sex, ultimate cause of death, location of trauma, scene circumstances, whether the patient was hospitalized and duration of any hospitalization. A total of 159 cases were so examined.
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