Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation.
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Ortho-geriatric liaison--the missing link?
©2004 British Editorial Society of Bone and Joint Surgery doi:10.1302/0301-620X.86B5. 15502 $2.00 J Bone Joint Surg [Br] 2004;86-B:636-8. Cooperation between orthopaedic surgeons and geriatricians is fundamental to the management of patients with fragility fracture.1 In more recent years the emphasis has moved from rehabilitation to multidisciplinary, perioperative care.2-7 The recent publicati...
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Geriatric orthopaedic surgery & rehabilitation
دوره 2 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2011