Open AccessIncidence and Economic Burden of Intertrochanteric Fracture
Author(s) -
Ayoade Adeyemi,
G. Delhougne
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
jbjs open access
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2472-7245
DOI - 10.2106/jbjs.oa.18.00045
Subject(s) - medicine , diagnosis code , hip fracture , incidence (geometry) , population , health care , emergency medicine , demography , osteoporosis , environmental health , physics , sociology , optics , economics , economic growth
The present study provides a comprehensive and updated annual estimate of the economic burden of all hip fracture types and estimates the economic burden of intertrochanteric hip fractures in the Medicare population; to our knowledge, prior availability of this information in the literature is limited.
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