What is Fractures?
What is Fractures?
- Fractures: Fracture of a bone; also "broken bone".
- Fractures: A traumatic injury to the bone in which the continuity of the bone is broken. - 2003
Source - Diseases Database
- Fractures: breaking of hard tissue such as bone; "it was a nasty fracture"; "the break seems to have been caused by a fall".
Source - WordNet 2.1
Fractures: Introduction
Types of Fractures:
Types of Fractures:
Broader types of Fractures:
How many people get Fractures?
Incidence (annual) of Fractures: 1.5 million osteoporosis-related fractures
Incidence Rate of Fractures: approx 1 in 181 or 0.55% or 1.5 million people in USA [about data]
How serious is Fractures?
Complications of Fractures:
see complications of Fractures
Deaths for Fractures: 4.3 per 100,000 with 1,302 cases in Canada 19971
What causes Fractures?
Causes of Fractures: see causes of Fractures
Risk factors for Fractures:
see
risk factors for Fractures
What are the symptoms of Fractures?
Symptoms of Fractures:
see symptoms of Fractures
Complications of Fractures:
see complications of Fractures
Fractures: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Fractures.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Fractures.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Fractures:
see treatments for Fractures
Research for Fractures:
see research for Fractures
Society issues for Fractures
Hospitalization statistics for Fractures:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Fractures:
- 0.073% (9,328) of hospital consultant episodes were for fracture of rib, sternum and thoracic spine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 82% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of rib, sternum and thoracic spine required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 58% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of rib, sternum and thoracic spine were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 42% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of rib, sternum and thoracic spine were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 94% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of rib, sternum and thoracic spine required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 10.8 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for fracture of rib, sternum and thoracic spine in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Fractures:
Organs and body systems related to Fractures include:
Name and Aliases of Fractures
Main name of condition: Fractures
Other names or spellings for Fractures:
Broken bone, Bone fractures
Fracture of bone
Source - Diseases Database
Break
Source - WordNet 2.1
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