Perioperative mortality and morbidity of hip fractures among COVID-19 infected and non-infected patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Perioperative mortality and morbidity of hip fractures among COVID-19 infected and non-infected patients: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Purpose: Hip fractures among elderly patients are surgical emergencies. During COVID-19 pandemic time, many such patients could not be operated at early time because of the limitation of the medical resources, the risk of infection and redirection of medical attention to a severe infective health pr...

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Main Authors: Sujit Kumar Tripathy, Paulson Varghese, Sibasish Panigrahi, Bijnya Birajita Panda, Anand Srinivasan, Ramesh Kumar Sen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-05-01
Series:Chinese Journal of Traumatology
Subjects:
Hip fracture
Femur neck fracture
Mortality
COVID-19
Pandemic
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1008127521000882

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