Risk factors for postoperative infections in patients with hip fracture treated by means of Thompson arthroplasty

Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 51-55

  Garcia Alvarez F ^a   Al Ghanem, R ^a   Garcia Alvarez I ^b   Lopez Baisson A ^a   Bernal, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL ROYO VILLANOVA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Elderly patients; Hip fracture; Surgical infection

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT;

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BLADDER CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMENTIA; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ERYTHROCYTE TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; FEVER; FOLLOW UP; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LEUKOPENIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PREDICTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; THOMPSON ARTHROPLASTY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; GERIATRIC ASSESSMENT; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPAIN; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; SURVIVAL RATE; URINARY TRACT INFECTIONS;

EID: 70450222940     PISSN: 01674943     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2009.01.009     Document Type: Article

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