Mortality rates are similar after hip fractures for rural and urban patients

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1763-1770

  Miller, Benjamin J ^a   Cai, Xueya ^a   Cram, Peter ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b CADRE and the Rural Health Resource Center at the Iowa City VA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; RURAL AREA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; THERAPY DELAY; URBAN AREA;

EID: 84864217906     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-2140-3     Document Type: Review

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