Hip fracture risk in patients with burn injury: a retrospective cohort study in Taiwan - Kaewboonchoo O, Sung FC, Lin CL, Hsu HC, Kuo CT.

This work aimed to evaluate the hip fracture risk for patients with burn injury. A total of 16,430 patients with burn injury had an adjusted hazard ratio of 1.54 to encounter a hip fracture, compared with controls without the injury. These results encourag...

Source: SafetyLit - September 8, 2017 Category: International Medicine & Public Health Tags: Burns, Electricity, Explosions, Fire, Scalds Source Type: news