Emergency Department Pain Management Following Implementation of a Geriatric Hip Fracture Program
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Emergency Department Pain Management Following Implementation of a Geriatric Hip Fracture Program
INTRODUCTION Over 300,000 patients in the United States sustain low-trauma fragility hip fractures annually. Multidisciplinary geriatric fracture programs (GFP) including early, multimodal pain management reduce morbidity and mortality. Our overall goal was to determine the effects of a GFP on the emergency department (ED) pain management of geriatric fragility hip fractures. METHODS We perfo...
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عنوان ژورنال: Western Journal of Emergency Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1936-900X,1936-9018
DOI: 10.5811/westjem.2017.3.32853