Racial differences in institutionalization after hip fractures: California hospital discharge data

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 15, Issue 4 SUPPL. 5, 2005, Pages

  Ganesan, Kalpana ^a   Pan, Deyu ^b   Teklehaimenot, Senait ^b   Norris, Keith ^b  

^a Div of General Internal Medicine   (United States)

^b CHARLES R DREW UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

Author keywords

Extended care facilities; Hip fracture; Racial differences

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DATA ANALYSIS; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GENDER; HEALTH INSURANCE; HIP FRACTURE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NURSING HOME; RACE DIFFERENCE; RISK FACTOR; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CALIFORNIA; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT DISCHARGE; POPULATION GROUPS; SKILLED NURSING FACILITIES;

EID: 29244451516     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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