Details of Element: Location of Most Serious Injury From Fall
Component of History of Falling

Unique Name: lomsi
Contained in the Common BLSA Data Set ? No

Data Points (as of 09/06/98) Males Females Total
Number of Data Points 0 0 0
Number of Distinct Participants 0 0 0
Year First Collected n/a n/a -
Year Last Collected n/a n/a -

Type of Variable: Absolute Measure
Encoding: Discrete
    Value Meaning
    1 Head
    2 Neck
    3 Face
    4 Eyes
    5 Shoulder
    6 Upper Arm
    7 Elbow
    8 Lower Arm
    9 Wrist
    10 Hand
    11 Fingers
    12 Chest
    13 Back
    14 Side
    15 Abdomen
    16 Hip
    17 Upper Leg
    18 Knee
    19 Lower Leg
    20 Ankle
    21 Foot
    22 Toes
    23 Other
Precision: ##.
Anticipated Range: 01. thru 23.
Masterfile Index: 760-01-58
Related Data Elements: losms
Specific to this Data Element:
    Inclusion/Exclusion Rules: n/a
    Descriptive History: (none)
Details for this Data Type
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