Hip fracture care: All change

Age and Ageing

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 128-129

  Sahota, Opinder ^a   Currie, Colin ^b  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMORBIDITY; COST OF ILLNESS; EDITORIAL; FALLING; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; GERIATRIC CARE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; LENGTH OF STAY; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED KINGDOM;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CONTINUITY OF PATIENT CARE; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE HEALING; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; GREAT BRITAIN; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROGNOSIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 41249089276     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afn007     Document Type: Editorial

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