Hospital admissions following presentations to emergency departments for a fracture in older people

AUTOR(ES)

Boufous, Soufiane

FONTE

BMJ Group

RESUMO

The aim of this paper is to estimate the proportion of older people who are hospitalised following a presentation to an emergency department for hip, pelvic and wrist fractures. The findings indicate that hospitalisation data do not accurately reflect the incidence of low‐trauma fractures, particularly wrist and pelvic fractures, in older people.

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