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Is hospital volume related to quality of hip fracture care?: Analysis of 43,538 patients and 68 hospitals from the Dutch Hip Fracture Audit

, 2023
PurposeEvidence for a hospital volume-outcome relationship in hip fracture surgery is inconclusive. This study aimed to analyze the association between hospital volume as a continuous parameter and several processes and outcomes of hip fracture care ...
Zwet, E.W. van, Schipper, I.B., Hegeman, J.H., Dutch Hip Fracture Audit Grp, Krijnen, P., Würdemann, F.   +5 more
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Comparison of morbidity and mortality of hip and vertebral fragility fractures: Which one has the highest burden?

Osteoporosis and Sarcopenia, 2020
Objectives: Hip fragility fractures were regarded as one of the most severe, but recent papers report on the underestimated burden of vertebral compression fractures.
Maroun Rizkallah, Falah Bachour, Mirvat el Khoury, Amer Sebaaly, Boutros Finianos, Rawad el Hage, Ghassan Maalouf   +6 more
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Burden of hip fracture using disability-adjusted life-years: a pooled analysis of prospective cohorts in the CHANCES consortium.

Lancet Public Health, 2017
BACKGROUND No studies have estimated disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs) lost due to hip fractures using real-life follow-up cohort data. We aimed to quantify the burden of disease due to incident hip fracture using DALYs in prospective cohorts in the
N. Papadimitriou, K. Tsilidis, P. Orfanos, V. Benetou, E. Ntzani, I. Soerjomataram, A. Künn-Nelen, Ulrika Pettersson-Kymmer, S. Eriksson, H. Brenner, B. Schöttker, K. Saum, B. Holleczek, F. Grodstein, D. Feskanich, N. Orsini, A. Wolk, A. Bellavia, T. Wilsgaard, L. Jørgensen, P. Boffetta, D. Trichopoulos, A. Trichopoulou   +22 more
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Comparison of Short and Long Intramedullary Nails in the Treatment of Trochanteric and Subtrochanteric Fractures

JBJS Open Access
Background:. There is no consensus of whether to use a short or long intramedullary nail (IMN) in the treatment of trochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures. Methods:.
Peter Sverre Frønsdal, Eva Dybvik, PhD, Torbjørn Berge Kristensen, PhD, Jan-Erik Gjertsen, PhD   +3 more
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Characteristics of patients with hip fractures and comorbid fall‐related injuries in the emergency department

Acute Medicine & Surgery, 2022
Aim Hip fracture is one of the most common fall‐related injuries in the elderly population. Although falls may cause multiple types of injuries, no study has investigated the details of fall‐related injuries accompanied by hip fractures. This study aimed
Ryo Ishizawa, Nobuto Nakanishi, Liu Keibun, Tomohiro Sonoo, Kensuke Nakamura, Tadahiro Goto   +5 more
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One-Year Postfracture Mortality Rate in Older Adults With Hip Fractures Relative to Other Lower Extremity Fractures: Retrospective Cohort Study

JMIR Aging, 2022
BackgroundHip fracture in older adults is tied to increased mortality risk. Deconvolution of the mortality risk specific to hip fracture from that of various other fracture types has not been performed in recent hip fracture ...
Andrea Dimet-Wiley, George Golovko, Stanley J Watowich   +2 more
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Epidemiology of Hip Fractures [PDF]

Epidemiologic Reviews, 1997
Hip fractures are the most serious osteoporotic fracture at both an individual and population level. In the United States alone there are over 250,000 hip fractures each year (1), costing at least 5.4 billion dollars annually (2). About 20 percent of persons who fracture their hip are dead within a year (3, 4) and, of the survivors, many never regain ...
R G, Cumming, M C, Nevitt, S R, Cummings
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Performance of the resurfaced hip. Part 1: the influence of the prosthesis size and positioning on the remodelling and fracture of the femoral neck

, 2010
Hip resurfacing is an established treatment for osteoarthritis in young active patients. Failure modes include femoral neck fracture and prosthesis loosening, which may be associated with medium-term bone adaptation, including femoral neck narrowing and ...
Taylor, Andrew C., Browne, Martin, Dickinson, Alexander   +2 more
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The effect of high dose antibiotic impregnated cement on rate of surgical site infection after hip hemiarthroplasty for fractured neck of femur : a protocol for a double-blind quasi randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2013
Background: Mortality following hip hemiarthroplasty is in the range of 10-40% in the first year, with much attributed to post-operative complications.
Reed, Mike R., Jones, Simon M. G., Parsons, Nicholas R., Andrew P Sprowson, Dominic Inman, Inman, Dominic, Cyrus D Jensen, Nick Parsons, Murty, Aradhyula N., Gupta, Sanjay (Researcher in medicine), Sanjay Gupta, Mike R Reed, Jensen, Cyrus D., Aradhyula N Murty, Sprowson, Andrew P., Simon MG Jones   +15 more
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Risk factors for falls with severe fracture in elderly people living in a middle-income country: a case control study. [PDF]

, 2008
BACKGROUND: Fracture after falling has been identified as an important problem in public health. Most studies of risk factors for fractures due to falls have been carried out in developed countries, although the size of the elderly population is ...
Coutinho, Evandro SF, Coutinho Evandro SF, Laura C Rodrigues, Fletcher, Astrid, Bloch, Katia V, Astrid Fletcher, Katia V Bloch, Rodrigues, Laura C, Rodrigues Laura C, Fletcher Astrid, Evandro SF Coutinho, Bloch Katia V   +11 more
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