Does Admission to Medicine or Orthopaedics Impact a Geriatric Hip Patient's Hospital Length of Stay?
Sarah E. Greenberg,Jacob P. VanHouten,Nikita Lakomkin,Jesse M. Ehrenfeld,A. Alex Jahangir,Robert H. Boyce,William T. Obremksey,Manish K. Sethi +7 more
TL;DR: This is the largest study to demonstrate that admission to the medicine service compared with the orthopaedic service increases a geriatric hip fractures patient's expected LOS.
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Abstract: Objectives
The aim of our study was to determine the association between admitting service, medicine or orthopaedics, and length of stay (LOS) for a geriatric hip fracture patient.
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