Determing factors of mortality in the elderly with hip fractures

Tohoku Journal of Experimental Medicine

Volumn 188, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 139-142

  Koike, Yoichi ^a,b   Imaizumi, Hideki ^a   Takahashi, Eiji ^a   Matsubara, Yoshihiro ^a   Komatsu, Hiroshi ^a  

^a Hiraka General Hospital   (Japan)

^b Department of Orthopedic Surgery ^*  (Japan)

Author keywords

Femoral neck fractures; Hip fractures; Mortality; One year survival

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; ELECTROCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART DISEASES; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS;

EID: 0033147292     PISSN: 00408727     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1620/tjem.188.139     Document Type: Article

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