Is there a difference in timing and cause of death after fractures in the elderly?

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 471, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 2846-2851

  Liem, Inge S ^a   Kammerlander, Christian ^a   Raas, Christoph ^a   Gosch, Markus ^b   Blauth, Michael ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b Hospital Hochzirl   (Austria)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CARDIOVASCULAR MORTALITY; CAUSE OF DEATH; COMORBIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FRAGILITY FRACTURE; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INFECTION; INJURY SEVERITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; MEDICAL RECORD; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PELVIS FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPIRATORY TRACT DISEASE; SPINE FRACTURE; STANDARDIZED MORTALITY RATIO; SURVIVAL TIME; TIME OF DEATH;

EID: 84881663774     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-2881-2     Document Type: Conference Paper

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