Medical Complications and Outcomes After Hip Fracture Repair
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Medical complications and outcomes after hip fracture repair.
BACKGROUND Most evidence guiding perioperative medical risk management of patients undergoing hip fracture repair focuses on cardiac and thromboembolic risk. Little is known of the relative clinical importance of other complications. OBJECTIVE To systematically map incidence and outcomes of a broad spectrum of medical complications after hip fracture repair. METHODS Retrospective cohort stu...
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عنوان ژورنال: Archives of Internal Medicine
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0003-9926
DOI: 10.1001/archinte.162.18.2053