Management of geriatric distal radius fractures

Journal of Hand Surgery

Volumn 37, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2619-2622

  Day, Charles S ^a,b,c   Daly, Michael C ^a,b,c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CAST APPLICATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; COLLES FRACTURE; COMORBIDITY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DISABILITIES OF THE ARM, SHOULDER, AND HAND; DISABILITY; EVIDENCE BASED PRACTICE; EXTERNAL FIXATOR; FALLING; FOLLOW UP; FRACTURE IMMOBILIZATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; GERIATRIC PATIENT; GRIP STRENGTH; HAND FUNCTION; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HISTORICAL RESEARCH; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT RATED WRIST EVALUATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIUS FRACTURE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RANGE OF MOTION; VOLAR PLATE FIXATION;

AGED; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; RADIUS FRACTURES;

EID: 84869504472     PISSN: 03635023     EISSN: 15316564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jhsa.2012.07.038     Document Type: Article

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