POSSUM predicts hospital mortality and long-term survival in patients with hip fractures

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2011, Pages E67-E72

  van Zeeland, Michiel L P ^a   Genovesi, Igande P Oñorbe ^a   Mulder, Jan Willem R ^a   Strating, Paul R ^a   Glas, Afina S ^b   Engel, Alexander F ^a  

^a ZAANS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Hip fracture; POSSUM; Survival

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AREA UNDER THE CURVE; ARTICLE; CACHEXIA; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DISEASE; CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEHYDRATION; DELIRIUM; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR TROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FRACTURE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOMA; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HIP HEMIARTHROPLASTY; HUMAN; INTRAMEDULLARY NAILING; KIDNEY FAILURE; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGIC AND OPERATIVE SEVERITY SCORE FOR THE ENUMERATION OF MORTALITY AND MORBIDITY SYSTEM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; RESPIRATORY TRACT INFECTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEPSIS; SURGICAL PATIENT; SURVIVAL TIME; URINARY TRACT INFECTION; VASCULAR DISEASE; VEIN THROMBOSIS; WOUND INFECTION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTRAMEDULLARY; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; NETHERLANDS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79954539502     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/TA.0b013e3181edbf7a     Document Type: Article

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