Open AccessTrends in hospital admissions for fractures of the hip and femur in England, 1989-1990 to 1997-1998
Author(s) -
Sooria Balasegaram,
Azeem Majeed,
Halina Fitz-Clarence
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
journal of public health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.916
H-Index - 82
eISSN - 1741-3850
pISSN - 1741-3842
DOI - 10.1093/pubmed/23.1.11
Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , osteoporosis , public health , epidemiology , hospital admission , mortality rate , emergency medicine , demography , pediatrics , surgery , sociology , nursing
Fractures of the hip are a major public health issue. Suggestions of a recent stabilization of age-specific admission rates would have implications for health service planning, thus we investigated this using hospital data.
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