The primary determinants of radiation use during fixation of proximal femur fractures

Injury

Volumn 45, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1614-1619

  Baratz, Michael D ^a   Hu, Yue Yung ^a   Zurakowski, David ^b   Appleton, Paul ^a   Rodriguez, Edward K ^a  

^a BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY POSITION; FEMALE; FEMUR FRACTURE; FEMUR INTERTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FEMUR SUBTROCHANTERIC FRACTURE; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION; HOSPITAL PERSONNEL; HUMAN; IONIZING RADIATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; ORTHOPEDIC EQUIPMENT; PATIENT POSITIONING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERY ELDERLY; BONE SCREW; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT ANALYSIS; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PATIENT CARE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT; RADIATION DOSE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RADIOGRAPHY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPINE POSITION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UTILIZATION;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; BONE SCREWS; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; COHORT STUDIES; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, RADIATION; FEMALE; FEMORAL FRACTURES; FLUOROSCOPY; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; HUMANS; MALE; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PROTECTIVE DEVICES; RADIATION DOSAGE; RADIATION PROTECTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SUPINE POSITION; TIME FACTORS; TRAUMA CENTERS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84922544699     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: 18790267     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2014.05.010     Document Type: Article

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