Women less likely to receive geriatric care for emergency hip surgery

(Canadian Medical Association Journal) More than 70 percent of patients receiving surgery for hip fracture are women, yet they are less likely than men to receive geriatric care during hospitalization, or an anesthesiology consultation before surgery, found a study published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

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