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Achieving hip fracture surgery within 36 hours: an investigation of risk factors to surgical delay and recommendations for practice

BACKGROUND: The UK hip fracture best practice tariff (BPT) aims to deliver hip fracture surgery within 36 h of admission. Ensuring that delays are reserved for conditions which compromise survival, but are responsive to medical optimisation, would help to achieve this target. We aimed to identify me...

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Autores principales: Aqil, Adeel, Hossain, Fahad, Sheikh, Hassaan, Aderinto, Joseph, Whitwell, George, Kapoor, Harish
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4999370/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26611677
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10195-015-0387-2