Hip fracture mortality and morbidity - Can we do better?

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 114, Issue 1136, 2001, Pages 329-332

  Davison, Christopher W ^a   Merrilees, Megan J ^b   Wilkinson, Tim J ^a,c   McKie, John S ^a   Sainsbury, Richard ^a   Gilchrist, Nigel L ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b Canterbury Geriatric Med Res Trust   (New Zealand)

^c PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NEW ZEALAND; OSTEOPOROSIS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OSTEOPOROSIS;

EID: 0035958890     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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