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Research Development
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Aim Hip fractures are the most common serious injury affecting elderly people and are associated with a total cost to the health and social services over £1 billion per year. This injury takes approximately 1% of the NHS budget. Furthermore current 30-day mortality rate is 6.5% so has serious implications for patients. NICE..
Published: | 28/02/2022 |
Authors: | West C, Wright C |
Aims The aim of this study was to analyse if the COVID-19 pandemic had any effect on the number of emergency laparotomies performed each month at a single NHS Foundation Trust. Method This single-centre retrospective observational study included all patients that underwent an emergency laparotomy that was registered as part..
Published: | 28/10/2021 |
Authors: | Wright C, Kirkham S, Millward A, Macadam R |
Introduction A high BMI has long been thought to be a negative predictive factor for post-operative outcomes. For AWR surgery, a BMI of 32 is often used as a cut-off. Due to the increasing prevalence of obesity, this is not always possible. Aim This study compared the outcomes of patients undergoing..
Published: | 01/09/2019 |
Authors: | Wright C, Singh S, Samad A, West C, Ross S, Scott M |
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