Effects of impairment in activities of daily living on predicting mortality following hip fracture surgery in studies using administrative healthcare databases

BACKGROUND: Impairment in activities of daily living (ADL) is an important predictor of outcomes although many administrative databases lack information on ADL function. We evaluated the impact of ADL function on predicting postoperative mortality among older adults with hip fractures in Ontario, Ca...

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Main Authors: Seitz, Dallas P, Anderson, Geoffrey M, Austin, Peter C, Gruneir, Andrea, Gill, Sudeep S, Bell, Chaim M, Rochon, Paula A
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2014
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3922692/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24472282
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2318-14-9
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