Albumin levels and mortality in patients with hip fractures

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 109, Issue 1016, 1996, Pages 56-57

  Burness, Robert ^a   Horne, Geoffrey ^b,c   Purdie, Gordon ^c  

^a Wellington Hospital

^b Department of Surgery ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SERUM ALBUMIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SURVIVAL;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PREOPERATIVE CARE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SERUM ALBUMIN; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030598466     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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