Ward-based rather than team-based junior surgical doctors reduce mortality for patients with a fracture of the proximal femur: Results from a two-year observational study

Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery - Series B

Volumn 93 B, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 393-398

  Findlay, J M ^a,b   Keogh, M J ^a,c   Boulton, C ^a   Forward, D P ^a   Moran, C G ^a  

^a QUEEN S MEDICAL CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BERKSHIRE HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c ROYAL VICTORIA INFIRMARY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHEST INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART FAILURE; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INTESTINE OBSTRUCTION; LENGTH OF STAY; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTHESIS FAILURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STROKE; SURGEON; SURGICAL WARD; TEACHING HOSPITAL; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; ENGLAND; EPIDEMIOLOGIC METHODS; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ORGANIZATIONAL; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79952261240     PISSN: 0301620X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1302/0301-620X.93B3.25730     Document Type: Article

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