HOME HELP FEEDBACK SUBSCRIPTIONS ARCHIVE SEARCH TABLE OF CONTENTS REGISTER		Author Keyword(s) Vol Page [Advanced]

This Article Full Text Full Text (PDF) Submit a response Alert me when this article is cited Alert me when eLetters are posted Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this link to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Add article to my folders Download to citation manager Request Permissions Citing Articles Citing Articles via Google Scholar Google Scholar Articles by Boufous, S. Articles by Lord, S. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Boufous, S. Articles by Lord, S.

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

¹ NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
² School of Human Movement and Sport Sciences, University of Ballarat, Ballarat, Victoria, Australia
³ Prince of Wales Medical Research Institute, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
⁴ Accident Research Centre, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Correspondence to:
Dr S Boufous
NSW Injury Risk Management Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Building B10, Sydney, NSW 2052, Australia; soufiane{at}unsw.edu.au

ABSTRACT
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.

Abbreviations: ED, emergency department; VEMD, Victorian Emergency Minimum Dataset