Hip fracture unit: beyond orthogeriatrics

Intern Emerg Med. 2018 Aug;13(5):637-639. doi: 10.1007/s11739-018-1818-x. Epub 2018 Mar 6.

Authors

Carlo Rostagno¹, Alessandro Cartei², Roberto Civinini³, Domenico Prisco⁴

Affiliations

¹ Dipartimento Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica Università di Firenze, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134, Florence, Italy. carlo.rostagno@unifi.it.
² SOD medicina interna e post-chirurgica AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
³ SOD traumatologia ed Ortopedia AOU Careggi, Florence, Italy.
⁴ Dipartimento Medicina Sperimentale e Clinica Università di Firenze, Viale Morgagni 85, 50134, Florence, Italy.

PMID: 29508226
DOI: 10.1007/s11739-018-1818-x

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MeSH terms

Age Factors
Aged, 80 and over
Comorbidity
Frail Elderly
Geriatrics / trends*
Hip Fractures / epidemiology
Hip Fractures / surgery
Humans
Incidence
Outcome Assessment, Health Care*