Incidence of traumatic long-bone fractures requiring in-hospital management: A prospective age- and gender-specific analysis of 4890 fractures

Injury

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 1212-1219

  Meling, Terje ^a   Harboe, Knut ^a   Søreide, Kjetil ^a,b  

^a STAVANGER UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

Age; Epidemiology; Fracture; Gender; Incidence; Long bone; Prospective; Registry; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARM FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BONE PLATE; CHILD; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; FRACTURE; HOSPITAL MANAGEMENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LEG FRACTURE; LONG BONE; LONG BONE FRACTURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NORWAY; OPEN FRACTURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SEX RATIO; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURES, BONE; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NORWAY; SEX DISTRIBUTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349432207     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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