Incidence and risk factors associated with hip fracture in institutionalised elderly people in Japan

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 478-482

  Nakamura, Kazutoshi ^a   Takahashi, Shunsuke ^b   Oyama, Mari ^a   Nashimoto, Mitsue ^c   Saito, Toshiko ^c   Tsuchiya, Yasuo ^a   Yoshizawa, Yoshiaki ^d   Yamamoto, Masaharu ^a  

^a NIIGATA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL AND DENTAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b NIIGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NIIGATA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH AND WELFARE   (Japan)

^d Niigata Council of Institutions for the Elderly   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; AGED; BARTHEL INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FEMUR HEAD; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR PERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIGH RISK PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; JAPAN; LETTER; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; COHORT STUDIES; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; HIP FRACTURES; HOMES FOR THE AGED; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; JAPAN; NURSING HOMES; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 67649429796     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp052     Document Type: Letter

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