Is basal haemoglobin level really a prognostic factor for early death of elderly patients undergoing hip fracture surgery?

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¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Henan Provincial People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450003, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: xuefushan@aliyun.com.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, People's Republic of China.

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Jia-Qiang Zhang et al. Injury. 2015 Oct.

. 2015 Oct;46(10):2079-80.

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.05.012. Epub 2015 May 14.

¹ Department of Anesthesiology, Henan Provincial People's Hospital of Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450003, People's Republic of China.
² Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, People's Republic of China. Electronic address: xuefushan@aliyun.com.
³ Department of Anesthesiology, Plastic Surgery Hospital, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Beijing 100144, People's Republic of China.

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Keywords: Haemoglobin; Hip fracture; Mortality.

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Basal haemoglobin levels as prognostic factor for early death in elderly patients with a hip fracture--A twenty year observation study.
Kovar FM, Endler G, Wagner OF, Jaindl M. Kovar FM, et al. Injury. 2015;46(6):1018-22. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2015.01.010. Epub 2015 Jan 22. Injury. 2015. PMID: 25704141