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Comment
. 2014 Jun;472(6):1667-71.
doi: 10.1007/s11999-014-3595-9. Epub 2014 Apr 8.

Editor's spotlight/Take 5: nationwide inpatient sample and national surgical quality improvement program give different results in hip fracture studies

Daniel D Bohl, Jonathan N Grauer, Seth S Leopold  1
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Editor's spotlight/Take 5: nationwide inpatient sample and national surgical quality improvement program give different results in hip fracture studies

Daniel D Bohl et al. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2014 Jun.
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Mr. Bohl (L), Dr. Grauer (R), and the rest of the Yale University team found that while hip fracture patients were demographically similar in both databases, the presence of key comorbidities were off by more than a factor of two, with some being higher in NIS, and others in NSQIP
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