The impact of race/ethnicity on preoperative time to hip stabilization procedure after hip fracture

Southern Medical Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 414-418

  Nguyen Oghalai, Tracy U ^a   Kuo, Yong Fang ^a   Wu, Helen ^a   Shokar, Navkiran K ^a   Grecula, Michael ^a   Tincher, Steven ^a   Ottenbacher, Kenneth J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Disparities; Hip fractures; Hispanic; Medicare; Preoperative time

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ARTHROPLASTY; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; NEGRO; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; RACE DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; ETHNIC GROUPS; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; TIME FACTORS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951842389     PISSN: 00384348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SMJ.0b013e3181d7ba2f     Document Type: Article

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