Lucknow: Focusing on recent advancement in hip fracture management, experts highlighted that postoperative activity levels ...

"A hip fracture can be a complex and dangerous problem for people ... cardiologists, and intensive care specialists. Despite the challenges, Dr. Sharma and his team successfully performed the ...

MUSC Health Rehabilitation Hospital, an affiliate of Encompass Health, has appointed Glenda Carius as CEO.

Background Proximal femoral fractures in older adults affect prognosis, quality of life and medical expenses. Therefore, ...

More severe acute pain trajectories led to greater opioid consumption and longer hospitalization among older patients with fragility hip fractures.

There are statistics about what happens when you break your hip and they include ... Something like half of people who fracture their hips wind up in a nursing home type setting for at least ...

“The high prevalence of dementia among hip fracture patients and its impact on mortality emphasize the need for comprehensive care strategies that address both the cognitive and physical health ...

Patients over the age of 50 have an increased risk of mortality following hip fracture, which is dependent on factors such as health and post-fracture comorbidities. Findings from a meta-analysis ...

Despite national guidelines, how health services organise hip fracture care varies greatly across UK hospitals. Finding out which parts of the hip fracture care pathway explain variation in patient ...

The FRAX tool demonstrated good discrimination overall but underestimated fracture risk among certain patients with diabetes, including Hispanic women and Black men.

Patients on GLP-1s for type 2 diabetes had a lower incidence of hip fracture vs. those on other antidiabetic drugs. Femoral neck fracture incidence was lower in the GLP-1 group vs. other ...

WP5. Understand and characterise care pathways for hip fracture and identify factors that help and hinder set-up and implementation of fracture services (WP5) If ultimately this research is to impact ...