Author/Editor		Hovnik-Keršmanc, Marjetka
Title		Neposredni uzroci smrti nakon prijeloma kuka zbog slučajnog pada u Sloveniji
Type		monografija
Place		Zagreb
Publisher		Medicinski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu
Publication year		1993
Volume		str. 55
Language		cro
Abstract		Due to increase in the number of older inhabitants and the increase in the number and the percentage of people with the risk of hip failure, the importance of this problem for the public health service is increasing in Slovenia. Therefore, it was desired to investigate the immediate causes of death following hip fracture and how they are influenced by sex, age, marital status, the place of death (in hospital / at home), the area of death (the public health service regions), the accompanying diseases. Due to the importance of mortality statistics in the assessment of state of health, another intention eas to investigate whether in Slovenia, in the period observed, the attitude to the doctors - coroners towards the record of the cause of death, changed. It was a retrospective investigation using the regular vital statistics data, based on the international form of medical certificate of the cause of death and the registration of death. The inhabitabts aged 50 years and over, who died in the period from 1987 to 1991 in Slovenia due to hip fracture following an accidental fall (underlying cause of death), codes N 820 and E 880-E 888 by the international statistical classification of diseases, injuries and causes of death, 9th revision (ICD-9), were included in the study. The most frequent immediate causes of death (subgroup of ICD) were: in 26.6% of cases pneumonia/influenza, in 18.5% other forms of heart disease, in 14.0% diseases of pulmonary circulation, in 13.0% ishaemic heart disease, and in 5.9% cerebrovascular disease. Mortality differed significantly between sexes for the diseases of pulmonary circulation (p = 0.03), between the two places of death for other forms of heart disease (p < 0.01) and for cerebrovascular disease (p = 0.03), between areas of death for pneumonia/influenza (p < 0.01)...Abstract truncated at 2000 characters.
Descriptors		HIP FRACTURES ACCIDENTAL FALLS CAUSE OF DEATH MIDDLE AGE AGED MORTALITY SLOVENIA