Time to Ambulation after Hip Fracture Surgery: Relation to Hospitalization Outcomes

Journals of Gerontology - Series A Biological Sciences and Medical Sciences

Volumn 58, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 1042-1045

  Kamel, Hosam K ^a   Iqbal, Mohammad A ^b   Mogallapu, Ratna ^c   Maas, Diana ^a   Hoffmann, Raymond G ^b  

^a CLEMENT J ZABLOCKI VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN   (United States)

^c SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETABULUM FRACTURE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; GENERAL SURGERY; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; OPEN REDUCTION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

EID: 0345016308     PISSN: 10795006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/58.11.m1042     Document Type: Article

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