High-energy femur fractures increase morbidity but not mortality in elderly patients

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1030-1035

  Patel, Kushal V ^a   Brennan, Kindyle L ^a   Davis, Matthew L ^a   Jupiter, Daniel C ^a   Brennan, Michael L ^a  

^a SCOTT AND WHITE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGED HOSPITAL PATIENT; AGING; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; HEART INFARCTION; HIGH ENERGY FEMUR FRACTURE; HUMAN; INJURY SCALE; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; INJURY SEVERITY SCORE; INTENSIVE CARE; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TEXAS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898775011     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-3349-0     Document Type: Article

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