Red cell distribution width is an independent predictor of mortality in hip fracture

Age and Ageing

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 258-261

  Garbharran, Upaasna ^a   Chinthapalli, Suchitra ^a   Hopper, Iona ^a   George, Marc ^a   Back, Diane L ^a   Dockery, Frances ^a  

^a ST THOMAS HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hip fracture; Mortality; Older people; RDW

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN;

AGED; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIRIUM; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ERYTHROCYTE VOLUME; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE; HEART DISEASE; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEAN CORPUSCULAR VOLUME; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURGICAL RISK; URINARY TRACT INFECTION;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COMORBIDITY; ERYTHROCYTE INDICES; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PATIENT ADMISSION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84874515339     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afs176     Document Type: Article

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