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Minimal trauma fractures in older nursing home residents
 — the interaction of functional status, trauma and site of fracture
Author(s)R S Kane, E A Burns, J S Goodwin
Journal titleJournal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 43, no 2, February 1995
Pagespp 156-159
KeywordsFractures ; Mobility ; Patients [nursing homes].
AnnotationSuggests that minimal trauma fractures are common in nursing home patients, and that most have no clear precipitating factors other than severely impaired mobility.
Accession NumberCPA-950316280 A
ClassmarkCUF: C4: LHB:LF

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