Clopidogrel has no effect on mortality from hip fracture

Injury

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 743-746

  Wordsworth, D R ^a   Halsey, T ^a   Griffiths, R ^b   Parker, M J ^b  

^a Trauma and Orthopaedics East Anglia Rotation   (United Kingdom)

^b PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anticoagulant; ASA grade; Blood loss; Clopidogrel; Hip fracture; Morbidity; Mortality; One year; Outcome

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; CLOPIDOGREL;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HIP FRACTURE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATIVE BLOOD LOSS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; WOUND COMPLICATION;

ACUTE CORONARY SYNDROME; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ASPIRIN; BLOOD LOSS, SURGICAL; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; FEMALE; GREAT BRITAIN; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; PLATELET AGGREGATION INHIBITORS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; STROKE; TICLOPIDINE; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84877755431     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2012.11.028     Document Type: Article

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