Six month outcome of extremely old (≥95 years) trauma patients [5]

Age and Ageing

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 204-205

  Exadaktylos, Aristomenis K ^a,b   Buggy, D J ^a   Sclabas, G ^b   Zimmermann, H ^b  

^a MATER MISERICORDIAE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

AGED; AGING; BLUNT TRAUMA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLLES FRACTURE; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEAD INJURY; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LENGTH OF STAY; LETTER; LIMB FRACTURE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PERSONAL HYGIENE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL RATE; SWITZERLAND;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASES; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 33644981416     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afj022     Document Type: Letter

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