Ninety-day mortality after intertrochanteric hip fracture: Does provider volume matter?

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery

Volumn 92, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 799-806

  Forte, Mary L ^a   Virnig, Beth A ^b,c   Swiontkowski, Marc F ^e   Bhandari, Mohit ^f   Feldman, Roger ^b,c   Eberly, Lynn E ^b,d   Kane, Robert L ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c Minnesota Evidence based Practice Center   (United States)

^d MMC   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^f MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERTROCHANTERIC HIP FRACTURE; INTRAMEDULLARY NAIL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME PATIENT; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RACE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SEX; SURGEON; BONE NAIL; BONE PLATE; BONE SCREW; HOSPITAL; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; MEDICAL FEE; ORTHOPEDICS; RISK FACTOR; STATISTICS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BONE NAILS; BONE PLATES; BONE SCREWS; FEE-FOR-SERVICE PLANS; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; ORTHOPEDICS; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; UNITED STATES;

EID: 77951931014     PISSN: 00219355     EISSN: 15351386     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2106/JBJS.H.01204     Document Type: Article

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