CORR insights®: Association of a modified frailty index with mortality after femoral neck fracture in patients aged 60 years and older

Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research

Volumn 472, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1018-1019

  Zampini, Jay M ^a  

^a DREXEL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTHROPLASTY; COMPRESSION FRACTURE; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FEMUR NECK FRACTURE; FRAIL ELDERLY; GROUPS BY AGE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUMERUS FRACTURE; INFORMED CONSENT; MODIFIED FRAILTY INDEX; MORTALITY; NOTE; ORTHOPEDIC SURGERY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RADIUS FRACTURE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY;

FEMORAL NECK FRACTURES; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS;

EID: 84898821178     PISSN: 0009921X     EISSN: 15281132     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11999-013-3387-7     Document Type: Note

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