Does hip fracture increase short- and long-term all-cause mortality in older persons?
Hip fracture in older adults is associated with increased short- and long-term all-cause mortality.
In this large population-based sample of older persons across eight cohorts, hip fracture was associated with excess short- and long-term all-cause mortality in both sexes.
Katsoulis et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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