What is Shoulder Fracture?
What is Shoulder Fracture?
- Shoulder Fracture: Fracture of the shoulder joint.
Shoulder Fracture: Introduction
Types of Shoulder Fracture:
Broader types of Shoulder Fracture:
How many people get Shoulder Fracture?
Incidence (annual) of Shoulder Fracture: 5,258 annual cases in Victoria 1996 of clavicle/scapula/humerus (DHS-VIC)
Incidence Rate of Shoulder Fracture: approx 1 in 867 or 0.12% or 313,624 people in USA [about data]
What causes Shoulder Fracture?
Causes of Shoulder Fracture: see causes of Shoulder Fracture
What are the symptoms of Shoulder Fracture?
Symptoms of Shoulder Fracture:
see symptoms of Shoulder Fracture
Shoulder Fracture: Testing
Diagnostic testing: see tests for Shoulder Fracture.
Misdiagnosis: see misdiagnosis and Shoulder Fracture.
How is it treated?
Treatments for Shoulder Fracture:
see treatments for Shoulder Fracture
Research for Shoulder Fracture:
see research for Shoulder Fracture
Society issues for Shoulder Fracture
Hospitalization statistics for Shoulder Fracture:
The following are statistics from various sources about hospitalizations and Shoulder Fracture:
- 0.186% (23,721) of hospital consultant episodes were for fracture of shoulder and upper arm in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 85% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of shoulder and upper arm required hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 44% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of shoulder and upper arm were for men in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 56% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of shoulder and upper arm were for women in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 88% of hospital consultant episodes for fracture of shoulder and upper arm required emergency hospital admission in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 9.6 days was the mean length of stay in hospitals for fracture of shoulder and upper arm in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
- 3 days was the median length of stay in hospitals for fracture of shoulder and upper arm in England 2002-03 (Hospital Episode Statistics, Department of Health, England, 2002-03)
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Organs Affected by Shoulder Fracture:
Organs and body systems related to Shoulder Fracture include:
Name and Aliases of Shoulder Fracture
Main name of condition: Shoulder Fracture
Other names or spellings for Shoulder Fracture:
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