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Letter to the Editor: New Equations for Predicting Postoperative Risk in Patients with Hip Fracture

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  1. Department of Orthopaedics, Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, China, Sir Run Run Shaw Institute of Clinical Medicine of Zhejiang University, #3 East Qingchun Road, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, 310016, China

    ZhiJie Zhou PhD & ShunWu Fan PhD

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(Re: Hirose J, Ide J, Irie H, Kikukawa K, Mizuta H. New equations for predicting postoperative risk in patients with hip fracture. Clin Orthop Relat Res. 2009;467:3327–3333.)

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Zhou, Z., Fan, S. Letter to the Editor: New Equations for Predicting Postoperative Risk in Patients with Hip Fracture. Clin Orthop Relat Res 468, 1181–1182 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11999-010-1248-1

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