Emergency room consultation policy prevents surgery delay in elderly patients with hip fractures

Harefuah

Volumn 144, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 700-702

  Shoham, Yoav ^a   Peled, Ronit ^b,c   Atar, Dan ^a   Jaqim, Yitzhak ^b   Shcleffer, Pnina ^a   Reuveni, Haim ^a,c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b BARZILAI MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^c BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN;

AGED; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; ISRAEL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 28444440244     PISSN: 00177768     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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