Choice of Admitting Services for Older Adults with Hip Fracture

This feature about an older adult patient with a fragility fracture offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting admission of the patient to the medicine service and the other supporting admission to the orthopedic surgery service.

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Published inThe New England journal of medicine Vol. 387; no. 26; pp. 2466 - 2468
Main Authors Chang, Leslie L., Devereaux, P.J., Slobogean, Gerard
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published United States Massachusetts Medical Society 29.12.2022
Subjects
Aged
Aging
Aging General
and Education
and Education General
Bone surgery
Cardiac arrhythmia
Cardiology
Cardiology General
Case reports
Clinical Medicine
Clinical Medicine General
Clinical outcomes
Delirium
Emergency medical care
Emergency Medicine
Emergency Medicine General
Fractures
Geriatrics
Heart rate
Hip Fractures - therapy
Hospital-Based Clinical Medicine
Hospitalization
Hospitals
Humans
Intensive care
Internal medicine
Kidneys
Medical Practice
Medical research
Medicine
Mortality
Older people
Orthopedics
Orthopedics General
Patient Admission
Patients
Physicians
Surgery
Surgery General
Systematic review
Training
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Summary:This feature about an older adult patient with a fragility fracture offers a case vignette accompanied by two essays, one supporting admission of the patient to the medicine service and the other supporting admission to the orthopedic surgery service.
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ISSN:0028-4793
1533-4406
DOI:10.1056/NEJMclde2118451