Risk factors for hip fracture in skilled nursing facilities: Who should be evaluated?

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 484-489

  Colón Emeric, Cathleen S ^a   Biggs, David P ^b   Schenck, Anna P ^b   Lyles, Kenneth W ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b Medical Review of North Carolina   (United States)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Hip fractures; Nursing facilities; Prediction

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT;

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; AGED; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CHI SQUARE TEST; COGNITION; COHORT ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEMOGRAPHY; DRUG USE; FEMALE; GENDER; GLAUCOMA; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NURSING HOME; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATHOLOGIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; RISK FACTOR; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOMES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 0043208705     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-003-1384-5     Document Type: Article

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