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Effects of impairment in activities of daily living on predicting mortality following hip fracture surgery in studies using administrative healthcare databases

BACKGROUND: Impairment in activities of daily living (ADL) is an important predictor of outcomes although many administrative databases lack information on ADL function. We evaluated the impact of ADL function on predicting postoperative mortality among older adults with hip fractures in Ontario, Ca...

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Autores principales: Seitz, Dallas P, Anderson, Geoffrey M, Austin, Peter C, Gruneir, Andrea, Gill, Sudeep S, Bell, Chaim M, Rochon, Paula A
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922692/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472282
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-9

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