The relationship between short-term mortality and quality of care for hip fracture: A meta-analysis of clinical pathways for hip fracture

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 2046-2054

  Neuman, Mark D ^a,b   Archan, Sylvia ^b,d   Karlawish, Jason H ^a,c   Schwartz, J Sanford ^a,b   Fleisher, Lee A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b Versity of Pennsylvania ^*  (United States)

^c Division of Geriatrics   (United States)

^d MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Clinical pathways; Hip fracture; Quality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL TRIAL; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PNEUMONIA; SURGICAL INFECTION; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; COMORBIDITY; CRITICAL PATHWAYS; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INDEPENDENT LIVING; ODDS RATIO; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PRESSURE ULCER; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; RISK FACTORS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS; VENOUS THROMBOSIS;

EID: 70350442990     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02492.x     Document Type: Article

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