Incidence of patients with lower extremity injuries presenting to US emergency departments by anatomic region, disease category, and age

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 470, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 284-290

  Lambers, Kaj ^a   Ootes, Daan ^a   Ring, David ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b Yawkey Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABRASION; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANKLE FRACTURE; ANKLE INJURY; ANKLE SPRAIN; ARTICLE; AVULSION INJURY; CHILD; DERMATITIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOOT INJURY; FOREIGN BODY; GROUPS BY AGE; HOME ACCIDENT; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; KNEE INJURY; LACERATION; LEG AMPUTATION; LEG INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRAIN; NERVE INJURY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBABILITY SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; TOE INJURY; UNITED STATES; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FACTUAL DATABASE; FOLLOW UP; INJURY SCALE; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANKLE INJURIES; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; LEG INJURIES; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEX DISTRIBUTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865089253     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-011-1982-z     Document Type: Article

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