Upward trends in the incidence of neck of femur fractures in the elderly

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 116, Issue 1185, 2003, Pages

  Stephenson, Shaun ^a   Langley, John ^a   Campbell, John ^b   Gillespie, William ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; ELDERLY CARE; ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INTERNATIONAL CLASSIFICATION OF DISEASES; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEW ZEALAND; PREDICTION; PUBLIC HOSPITAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; HOSPITALIZATION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MEDICAL RECORD; NOTE; STATISTICS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FORMS AND RECORDS CONTROL; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 0642276493     PISSN: 11758716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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