Direct medical costs of traumatic thoracolumbar spine fractures

Acta Orthopaedica

Volumn 76, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 662-666

  Van Der Roer, Nicole ^a,b   De Bruyne, Martine C ^b   Bakker, Fred C ^a   Van Tulder, Maurits W ^a,b   Boers, Maarten ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMALE; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OUTPATIENT CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; SPINE FRACTURE; THORACOLUMBAR SPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; LUMBAR VERTEBRAE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NETHERLANDS; SPINAL FRACTURES; THORACIC VERTEBRAE;

EID: 27644576424     PISSN: 17453674     EISSN: 17453682     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17453670510041745     Document Type: Article

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