The medical orthopaedic trauma service: An innovative multidisciplinary team model that decreases in-hospital complications in patients with hip fractures

Journal of Orthopaedic Trauma

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 379-383

  Dy, Christopher J ^a,b,c   Dossous, Paul Michel ^c   Ton, Quang V ^a   Hollenberg, James P ^b,c   Lorich, Dean G ^a,b,c   Lane, Joseph M ^a,b,c  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

collaborative; hip fracture; hospitalist; multidisciplinary; osteoporosis; outcomes; team

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECUBITUS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DELIRIUM; ETHNICITY; FEMALE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FEMUR PERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEART INFARCTION; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PERIOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL INFECTION; TRAUMATOLOGY; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; ORTHOPEDICS; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TRAUMATOLOGY;

EID: 84861793661     PISSN: 08905339     EISSN: 15312291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BOT.0b013e3182242678     Document Type: Article

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