Impact of surgical complications on length of stay after hip fracture surgery

Injury

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 780-784

  Foss, Nicolai B ^a   Palm, Henrik ^a   Krasheninnikoff, Michael ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^b   Gebuhr, Peter ^a  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Bed days; Complication; Hip fracture; Immobilise; Infection; Length of stay; Resource; Surgery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FALLING; FEMALE; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL BED; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOBILIZATION; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REOPERATION; SURGICAL INFECTION; SURGICAL PATIENT;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 34249947799     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2006.08.028     Document Type: Article

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