Prediction of hip fracture can be significantly improved by a single biomedical indicator

Annals of Biomedical Engineering

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 801-807

  Testi, Debora ^a,b   Viceconti, Marco ^a   Cappello, Angelo ^b   Gnudi, Saverio ^c  

^a RIZZOLI ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^c Istituti Ortopedici Rizzoli   (Italy)

Author keywords

Aging; Bayesian prediction; Femoral neck fractures prevention and control; Finite element analysis; Risk factors

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; BIOMEDICAL ENGINEERING; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STATISTICAL METHODS; X RAY ANALYSIS;

BIOMEDICAL INDICATORS;

FRACTURE FIXATION;

AGED; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CLASSIFICATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EVALUATION; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MECHANICAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REFERENCE VALUE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY;

AGED; BAYES THEOREM; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; REFERENCE VALUES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0035982811     PISSN: 00906964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1114/1.1495866     Document Type: Article

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