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ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/
Earlier hip fracture surgery admission associated with lower in-hospital mortality than later treatment
Study authors projected that there would be an additional 10.9 deaths for every 1,000 surgeries if all surgeries were performed after inpatient day 3 instead of on the admission day.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/08/15/4.htm
15 Aug 2018
Fixing hip fracture outcomes
Orthos, geriatricians, and hospitalists at one hospital collaborated to apply age-friendly strategies in their hip fracture care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/fixing-hip-fracture-outcomes.htm
8 Feb 2023
Surgical, nonsurgical management of hip fracture compared in nursing home residents with advanced dementia
Patients who had been managed surgically had less documented pain and fewer pressure ulcers, but use of antipsychotic drugs and physical restraints did not appear to differ, and few patients in either group remained ambulatory at six months.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2018/05/16/2.htm
16 May 2018
March 22, 2023
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/22/
Risk of mortality may be increased when hip fracture repair wait time exceeds 24 hours
Targeting surgery within 24 hours would represent a significant change in practice because the majority of patients did not receive surgery within this timeframe, study authors noted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/12/06/2.htm
6 Dec 2017
Helping hip fracture patients
Is comanagement the answer?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/helping-hip-fracture-patients.htm
15 Dec 2020
December 2020
ACP Hospitalist provides hospital-based physicians with news and information about the practice of hospital medicine.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/
Mortality with later hip fracture surgery linked to medical reasons for delay
Late hip fracture surgery carries a higher mortality risk than early surgery, but mostly because of underlying medical reasons for the delay and not the delay itself, according to a new study.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2011/08/17/5.htm
17 Aug 2011
A bone to pick
Osteoporosis is undertreated in fragility fracture patients. Hospitalists have an opportunity to help close that gap.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/a-bone-to-pick.htm
24 Jan 2024