The epidemiology of hospitalised wrist fractures in older people, New South Wales, Australia

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Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 1144-1148

  Boufous, Soufiane ^a   Finch, Caroline ^a   Lord, Stephen ^a   Close, Jacqueline ^a   Gothelf, Todd ^b   Walsh, William ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b PRINCE OF WALES HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Incidence; Older people; Wrist fractures

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENERGY METABOLISM; EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MACHINE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRAFFIC ACCIDENT; VIOLENCE; WRIST FRACTURE;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW SOUTH WALES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SEX FACTORS; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 33749512763     PISSN: 87563282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2006.05.011     Document Type: Article

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