Current and future national costs to medicare for the treatment of distal radius fracture in the elderly

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1282-1287

  Shauver, Melissa J ^a,b   Yin, Huiying ^a,b   Banerjee, Mousumi ^a,b   Chung, Kevin C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Distal radius fracture; elderly; hand surgery; Medicare; payments

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST OF ILLNESS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAID; MEDICARE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FORECASTING; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; RADIUS FRACTURES; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79961168465     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2011.05.017     Document Type: Article

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