- Abstract:
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BACKGROUND: We investigated the validity of routine hospital and mortality hip fracture data in one English Region and estimated trends in hip fracture between 1978-1981 and 1993-1995. METHODS: We identified from Hospital Episode System (HES) data for 1993-1995 all hip fracture episodes relating to individual patients aged over 65 years resident in Wessex. We determined from the discharge method code whether an individual had died during that admission. The number of individual regional and d...
Expand abstract - Publication status:
- Published
- Journal:
- Journal of public health medicine
- Volume:
- 20
- Issue:
- 2
- Pages:
- 196-205
- Publication date:
- 1998-06-05
- EISSN:
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1464-3782
- ISSN:
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0957-4832
- URN:
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uuid:4005d7d3-337e-45a8-a5be-1bba7364ff1b
- Source identifiers:
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126420
- Local pid:
- pubs:126420
- Language:
- English
- Keywords:
- Copyright date:
- 1998
Journal article
Hip fracture incidence and mortality in an English Region: a study using routine National Health Service data.
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