Death, Debility, and Destitution Following Hip Fracture
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Death, debility, and destitution following hip fracture.
BACKGROUND We examined the effects of hip fracture on mortality, entry into long-term institutional care, and new evidence of poverty. We estimate of the proportion of hip fracture patients who require not just short-term rehabilitation but who become dependent on long-term institutional care, and the risk of becoming newly dependent on Medicaid or eligible for low-income subsidies following hi...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Journals of Gerontology: Series A
سال: 2013
ISSN: 1758-535X,1079-5006
DOI: 10.1093/gerona/glt105