Anesthesia technique, mortality, and length of stay after hip fracture surgery

JAMA

Volumn 311, Issue 24, 2014, Pages 2508-2517

  Neuman, Mark D ^a,b   Rosenbaum, Paul R ^b,c   Ludwig, Justin M ^d   Zubizarreta, Jose R ^e,f   Silber, Jeffrey H ^a,b,c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^d CHILDREN S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA   (United States)

^e The Sanford C Bernstein Co Center for Leadership and Ethics   (United States)

^f Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANESTHETIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EPIDURAL ANESTHESIA; FEMALE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; GENERAL ANESTHESIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SPINAL ANESTHESIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANESTHESIA, EPIDURAL; ANESTHESIA, GENERAL; ANESTHESIA, SPINAL; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIP FRACTURES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; NEW YORK; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84902799308     PISSN: 00987484     EISSN: 15383598     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.6499     Document Type: Article

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