Open AccessAdmission rates and in-hospital mortality for hip fractures in England 1998 to 2009: time trends study
Author(s) -
TaiYin Wu,
MinHua Jen,
Alex Bottle,
ChenKun Liaw,
Paul Aylin,
Azeem Majeed
Publication year - 2010
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/fdq074
Subject(s) - hip fracture , medicine , confidence interval , osteoporosis , socioeconomic status , incidence (geometry) , mortality rate , epidemiology , demography , population , surgery , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics
Fractures of the proximal femur are an important public health concern. The incidence of hip fractures is an index of osteoporosis burden. There have been no recent studies examining national trends in hip fractures in England.
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