Fractures in the elderly: When is hip replacement a necessity?

Clinical Interventions in Aging

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-7

  Antapur, Prasad ^a   Mahomed, Nizar ^a   Gandhi, Rajiv ^a  

^a TORONTO WESTERN HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Elderly; Hip fractures; Hip replacement

Indexed keywords

AGED; BLEEDING; COST OF ILLNESS; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FRACTURE; FRACTURE DISLOCATION; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MOBILIZATION; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; QUALITY OF LIFE; REHABILITATION CARE; REVIEW; TOTAL HIP PROSTHESIS; TREATMENT INDICATION; UNDISPLACED FRACTURE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HIP FRACTURE; INCIDENCE; MORTALITY; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; RISK FACTOR;

AGED; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; ORTHOPEDIC FIXATION DEVICES; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 80051640968     PISSN: 11769092     EISSN: 11781998     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2147/CIA.S10204     Document Type: Review

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