Senile osteoporosis and femoral neck fractures in long-stay institutions
- 1 January 1991
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Calcified Tissue International
- Vol. 49 (S1) , S78-S79
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02555097
Abstract
The incidence rates of femoral neck fractures, one of the most serious complications of senile osteoporosis, were 8.7–9.4 times greater in old people in long-stay institutions than among old people living at home. The relative proportion of fracture patients admitted from long-stay institutions was four times greater than expected. Operative intervention of femoral neck fracture patients seemed to be successful: 85.4%–88.5% of patients were discharged to the environments from which they had been admitted.Keywords
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