Sex-specific and race-specific hip fracture rates.
- 1 March 1990
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Public Health Association in American Journal of Public Health
- Vol. 80 (3) , 326-328
- https://doi.org/10.2105/ajph.80.3.326
Abstract
Sex-, race- and age-specific hip fracture rates were determined using Health Care Financing Administration data for Medicare-reimbursed hip fracture hospitalizations from 1980 to 1982. Rates were highest in White women, lowest in Black men, and intermediate in White men and Black women. Proportions of hip fracture patients dying during hospitalization and those discharged to nursing homes, respectively, were: White men (10.5%; 49%); Black (9.3%; 32%); White women (5.0%; 54%); and Black women (8.2%; 30%).This publication has 51 references indexed in Scilit:
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