The impact of COVID-19 on the management and outcomes of patients with proximal femoral fractures: a multi-centre study of 580 patients

Abstract Background On the 11th March 2020, the World Health Organization declared the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. Multiple new guidelines were proposed and existing models of social, domestic and hospital care altered. Most healthcare systems were largely unprepared for this, and the pandemic has...

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Main Authors: Alice Wignall, Vasileios Giannoudis, Chiranjit De, Andrea Jimenez, Simon Sturdee, Sohail Nisar, Hemant Pandit, Aashish Gulati, Jeya Palan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-02-01
Series:Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13018-021-02301-z