Direct medical costs attributable to peripheral fractures in Canadian post-menopausal women

Osteoporosis International

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1757-1768

  Bessette, L ^a   Jean, S ^b   Lapointe Garant, M P ^a   Belzile, E L ^a   Davison, K S ^a   Ste Marie, L G ^c   Brown, J P ^a  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b INSTITUT NATIONAL DE SANTÉ PUBLIQUE DU QUÉBEC   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost; Economic; Fractures; Hip; Nonvertebral; Treatment

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ANKLE FRACTURE; ARTICLE; BILLING AND CLAIMS; CANADA; DATA BASE; ELBOW FRACTURE; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FOOT FRACTURE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HEALTH CARE COST; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PELVIS FRACTURE; POSTMENOPAUSE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHOULDER FRACTURE; TIBIA FRACTURE; WRIST FRACTURE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; OSTEOPOROSIS, POSTMENOPAUSAL; OSTEOPOROTIC FRACTURES; POSTMENOPAUSE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; QUEBEC; WRIST INJURIES;

EID: 84863623787     PISSN: 0937941X     EISSN: 14332965     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00198-011-1785-9     Document Type: Article

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