Anaemia impedes functional mobility after hip fracture surgery

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 173-178

  Foss, Nicolai B ^a   Kristensen, Morten Tange ^a   Kehlet, Henrik ^b  

^a HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Anaemia; Elderly; Hip fracture; Rehabilitation

Indexed keywords

CEFUROXIME; ENOXAPARIN; HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BONE SCREW; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT MOBILITY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE THROMBOSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; WALKING;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANEMIA; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; COHORT STUDIES; DENMARK; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HEMOGLOBINS; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; PERIOPERATIVE CARE; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SURVIVAL RATE; WALKING;

EID: 41249087215     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afm161     Document Type: Article

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