Cost-effectiveness of replacing skeletal traction by interlocked intramedullary nailing for femoral shaft fractures in a provincial trauma hospital in Cambodia

International Orthopaedics

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1445-1448

  Gosselin, Richard A ^a   Heitto, Merja ^b   Zirkle, Lew ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Emergency Hospital   (Cambodia)

^c Surgical Implant Generation Network SIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAMBODIA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMUR SHAFT FRACTURE; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKELETON TRACTION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BONE NAILS; CAMBODIA; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; TRACTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 70349766969     PISSN: 03412695     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00264-009-0798-x     Document Type: Article

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