Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10123862 | British Journal of Anaesthesia | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
About a quarter of the total mortality in hip fracture patients is definitely unavoidable, and death is probably only avoidable in about half of the unselected patients. These results have important implications for the design of future outcome studies, which should focus on other relevant outcomes than mortality per se.
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Authors
Foss N.B., Kehlet H.,