Mortality after distal femur fractures in elderly patients

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 469, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1188-1196

  Streubel, Philipp N ^a   Ricci, William M ^a   Wong, Ambrose ^a   Gardner, Michael J ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE ADJUSTED CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMENTIA; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOOT RADIOGRAPHY; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; KIDNEY DISEASE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METASTASIS; MORTALITY; PERIPROSTHETIC FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURVIVAL TIME; SURVIVOR; THERAPY DELAY; AGE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FRACTURE FIXATION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MIDDLE AGED; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MISSOURI; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 79955813352     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-010-1530-2     Document Type: Article

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