Health care and socioeconomic impact of falls in the elderly

American Journal of Surgery

Volumn 203, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 335-338

  Siracuse, Jeffrey J ^a   Odell, David D ^a   Gondek, Stephen P ^a   Odom, Stephen R ^a   Kasper, Ekkehard M ^a   Hauser, Carl J ^a   Moorman, Donald W ^a  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Costs; Elderly; Falls; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; AGED; ANEMIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE; COMORBIDITY; CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE; CRANIOTOMY; FALLING; FATALITY; HEALTH CARE; HEART ATRIUM FIBRILLATION; HOSPITAL ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INJURY; INTUBATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; METHODOLOGY; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NEUROSURGERY; ORTHOPEDIC SURGEON; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PNEUMONIA; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES FOR THE AGED; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MASSACHUSETTS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT READMISSION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS;

EID: 84857653336     PISSN: 00029610     EISSN: 18791883     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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