Elderly hip fracture patients admitted to the trauma service: Does it impact patient outcome?

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1348-1352

  Stone, Melvin E ^a   Barbaro, Casey ^b   Bhamidipati, Castigliano ^a   Cucuzzo, Janet ^a   Simon, Ronald ^a  

^a ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW ENGLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Elderly hip fracture; Mortality; Trauma service

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CRITICAL CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORDS SYSTEMS, COMPUTERIZED; NEW YORK CITY; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 38949121701     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e31815b838c     Document Type: Article

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