Epidemiology and financial burden of hip fractures

Current Opinion in Orthopaedics

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 8-11

  Gurkan, Ilksen ^a   Faust, Alfred F ^a   Mears, Simon C ^a   Wenz, James F ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cost; Economics; Epidemiology; Financial burden; Hip fracture

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE; COST CONTROL; COST OF ILLNESS; GEOGRAPHY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INHERITANCE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENTIAL HOME; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE;

EID: 1642457347     PISSN: 10419918     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001433-200402000-00004     Document Type: Review

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