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SUBMITTER: Nunes BKG
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7151474 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nunes Brenda Kelly Gonçalves BKG Lima Brunna Rodrigues de BR Guimarães Lara Cristina da Cunha LCDC Guimarães Rafael Alves RA Rosso Claci Fátima Weirich CFW de Almeida Felipe Lucenda L Pagotto Valéria V
Geriatrics (Basel, Switzerland) 20200219 1
<h4>Objective</h4>This study analyzes the causes of death, survival, and other related factors in hospitalized elderly people with fractures over the course of one year.<h4>Methods</h4>We followed 376 fracture patients for one year in a prospective cohort study to a reference hospital in central Brazil. The Cox regression model was used to analyze factors associated with survival.<h4>Results</h4>The results indicate that the one-year mortality rate was high (22.9%). The independent factors linke ...[more]