Should we operate on nonagenarians with hip fractures?

Injury

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 169-172

  Jennings, A G ^a   De Boer, P ^a  

^a YORK HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURVIVAL RATE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MORBIDITY; PATIENT SELECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0032938112     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-1383(98)00249-6     Document Type: Article

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