Outcomes in older patients after surgical treatment for hip fracture: A new approach to characterise the link between readmissions and the surgical stay

Age and Ageing

Volumn 38, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 584-589

  Teixeira, Antonio ^a   Trinquart, Ludovic ^b   Raphael, Mathilde ^c   Bastianic, Tanja ^c   Chatellier, Gilles ^b,c   Holstein, Josiane ^b,c  

^a HGMS de Plaisir   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hip fractures; Hospital information systems; Medical record linkage; Related readmission

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRANCE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; POSTOPERATIVE HEMORRHAGE; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RHEUMATIC DISEASE; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISEASE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMORBIDITY; DATABASES, FACTUAL; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HOSPITALS, PUBLIC; HOSPITALS, TEACHING; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEX DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 69449095751     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afp124     Document Type: Article

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