Hospital separation rates from osteoporotic and non-osteoporotic fractures in metropolitan and rural Australia

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 101-103

  Peach, H G ^a   Bath, N E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CERVICAL SPINE FRACTURE; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OSTEOPOROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RURAL POPULATION; ULNA FRACTURE; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AUSTRALIA; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; RISK FACTORS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 0032909047     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00218-6     Document Type: Article

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