%0 Journal Article
%T Obese patients who fall have less injury severity but a longer hospital stay than normal-weight patients
%A Cheng-Shyuan Rau
%A Ching-Hua Hsieh
%A Hang-Tsung Liu
%A Hsiao-Yun Hsieh
%A Jung-Fang Chuang
%A Shao-Chun Wu
%A Shiun-Yuan Hsu
%A Yi-Chun Chen
%J Archive of "World Journal of Emergency Surgery : WJES".
%D 2016
%R 10.1186/s13017-015-0059-9
%X The effects of obesity on injury severity and outcome have been studied in trauma patients but not in those who have experienced a fall. The aim of this study was to compare injury patterns, injury severities, mortality rates, and in-hospital or intensive care unit (ICU) length of stay (LOS) between obese and normal-weight patients following a fall
%K Fall
%K Obesity
%K Injury severity score
%K Mortality
%K In-hospital length of stay
%U https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4700636/