Hip fracture frequent in hospital.
In the year 1982, 112 hip fractures - cervical and trochanteric - were recorded in residents of Malmö after having been admitted to hospitals. During that same year, a total of 463 hip fractures occurred in the city. The risk of sustanining a hip fracture was 11 times greater in hospital patients aged 50 years or more than in persons of the same age who had not been admitted to hospitals.
D000058:Accidental Falls; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000453:epidemiology*; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011446:Prospective Studies; D013548:Sweden