Publications by authors named "Ph Autier"
Objectives: To explore potential predictors of functional outcome one year after the injury in elderly women who sustained a displaced intracapsular hip fracture and who were treated with internal fixation, hemiarthroplasty, or total hip arthroplasty.
Participants And Methods: Eighty-four women aged > or =50 years were enrolled on a consecutive basis in this one-year prospective cohort study reflecting standard day-to-day clinical practice. The main outcome measure was the rapid disability rating scale version-2 (RDRS-2) applied at hospital discharge and one year later.
Clinical risk factors for hip fracture in elderly women: a case-control study.
J Orthop Trauma
July 2002
Objectives: To evaluate the strength of the association between clinical risk factors and hip fracture occurrence in elderly women.
Design: A case-control study.
Patients/participants: Medical and social characteristics of 159 women with a first hip fracture (cases) were compared with 159 women without a hip fracture (controls) who were matched on age and residence.
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View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To evaluate in a multicentre setting the performance of cervicography compared with cytology for the detection of cervical intraepithelial neoplasia.
Design: Prospective comparative multicentre study.
Setting: Three hospitals with outpatient gynaecology clinics and three cancer screening clinics.