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Timing of surgery for hip fracture and in-hospital mortality: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the Spanish National Health System

BACKGROUND: While the benefits or otherwise of early hip fracture repair is a long-running controversy with studies showing contradictory results, this practice is being adopted as a quality indicator in several health care organizations. The aim of this study is to analyze the association between e...

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Autores principales: Librero, Julián, Peiró, Salvador, Leutscher, Edith, Merlo, Juan, Bernal-Delgado, Enrique, Ridao, Manuel, Martínez-Lizaga, Natalia, Sanfélix-Gimeno, Gabriel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3292938/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22257790
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-12-15