- Title
- Hospital admissions following presentations to emergency departments for a fracture in older people
- Creator
- Boufous, Soufiane; Finch, Caroline; Close, Jacqueline; Day, Lesley; Lord, Stephen
- Date
- 2007
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/60014
- Identifier
- vital:126
- Identifier
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https://doi.org/10.1136/ip.2006.014654
- Identifier
- ISSN:1353-8047
- Abstract
- The aim of this paper is to estimate the proportion of older people who are hospitalised following a presentation to an emergency department for hip, pelvic and wrist fractures. The findings indicate that hospitalisation data do not accurately reflect the incidence of low-trauma fractures, particularly wrist and pelvic fractures, in older people.; C1
- Publisher
- BMJ Publishing Group
- Relation
- Injury Prevention Vol. 13, no. 3 (2007), p. 211-214
- Rights
- Copyright BMJ Publishing Group
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1117 Public Health and Health Services; Age factors; Emergency services; Epidemiologic studies; Fractures; Bone; Health services for the aged; Hip fractures; Wrist injuries
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