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- 2018
Caregivers’ misperception of the severity of hip fracturesDOI: 10.2147/PPA.S164380 Keywords: hip fracture, disease perception, caregiver expectations, effective communication Abstract: The aim of our study was to evaluate how the caregiver of a hip fracture patient perceives the patient’s health status and autonomy in the period immediately preceding the acute event and whether these judgments are actually in line with the prognosis predicted by the medical team caring for the patient in the rehabilitation structure
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