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Causes of death among 93.637 hip fracture patients- data based on the Danish National Registry of causes of death.

Cecilie Korneliusen RoholdJes Bruun LauritzenHenrik Løvendahl Jørgensen
Published in: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society (2021)
In this study, cardiovascular disease and pneumonia were overall the leading medical causes of death in patients dead within 30-days after sustaining a hip fracture. Apart from pneumonia, another potentially preventable infection in younger female hip fracture patients was urinary tract infections. Pulmonary embolism, another potentially preventable cause of death might be underreported in Danish death certificates.
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