title: Identifying risk factors for and preventing hip fractures in elderly patients.
abstract: Changing the mind-set of Americans to exercise more, eat right, and be responsible for their own health throughout the continuum of life is a challenge for all health care professionals. Through personal interaction with patients and participation in hospitalwide or communitywide education programs, perioperative nurses play a key role in educating the public about prevention of hip fractures in elderly patients.
authors.affiliation: Carondelet St Mary's Hospital, Tucson, USA.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Mellinger
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004777:Environment; D015438:Health Behavior; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000209:etiology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012307:Risk Factors