Older patients with hip fractures: Evaluation of a long-term specialist orthopaedic medicine service in their outcomes

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 120, Issue 1254, 2007, Pages

  Thwaites, John H ^a   Mann, Fazal ^a   Gilchrist, Nigel ^a   McKie, John ^b,c   Sainsbury, Richard ^c  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (New Zealand)

^b Department of Orthopaedic Surgery ^*  (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALENDRONIC ACID; CALCIUM; ETIDRONIC ACID; VITAMIN D;

AGED; ARTICLE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OSTEOPOROSIS; PATIENT MOBILITY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WALKING AID; WALKING DIFFICULTY; AGE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; DEMOGRAPHY; EVALUATION; FRACTURE; GERIATRICS; LONG TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; NEW ZEALAND; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; ORTHOPEDICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FRACTURES, BONE; GERIATRICS; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LONG-TERM CARE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MOBILITY LIMITATION; NEW ZEALAND; ORTHOPEDICS; OSTEOPOROSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 34249791205     PISSN: None     EISSN: 11758716     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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