Concomitant Upper Extremity Fracture Worsens Outcomes in Elderly Patients With Hip Fracture

BACKGROUND: Elderly patients with low-energy hip fractures have high rates of morbidity and mortality, but it is not well known how often concurrent upper extremity fractures occur and how this impacts outcomes. We used the National Trauma Databank (NTDB), the largest aggregation of US trauma regist...

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Autores principales: Thayer, Mary Kate, Kleweno, Conor P., Lyons, Vivian H., Taitsman, Lisa A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5992804/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29900029
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2151459318776101

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