Outcomes and cost of care for patients with distal radius fractures

Orthopedics

Volumn 37, Issue 10, 2014, Pages e866-e878

  Farner, Scott ^a   Malkani, Arthur ^a   Lau, Edmund ^b   Day, Judd ^b   Ochoa, Jorge ^b   Ong, Kevin ^b  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

^b EXPONENT INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; FRACTURE NONUNION; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; ICD-9-CM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICARE; MONONEUROPATHY; MORBIDITY; OPEN FRACTURE; PATIENT CARE; PREVALENCE; PSEUDARTHROSIS; RADIUS FRACTURE; TENDON RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY; ADVERSE EFFECTS; COMPLICATION; ECONOMICS; RADIUS FRACTURES; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICARE; MORBIDITY; RADIUS FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84907843633     PISSN: 01477447     EISSN: 19382367     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3928/01477447-20140924-52     Document Type: Article

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