ALLMedicine™ Hip Fracture Center

Jan 15th, 2021 - Delirium is commonly detected in older people after hip fracture. Delirium is considered to be a multifactorial disorder which is often seen post-operatively (incidence ranging from 35% to 65%). Hospitals in Australia are required to meet eight st...

Jan 14th, 2021 - Hip fractures are a large burden on the health care systems of developed nations. Patients usually have multiple co-morbidities and the pre-injury use of anticoagulants and anti-platelet medication is common. This study used a single hospital hip ...

Jan 10th, 2021 - Hip fracture is a common health risk among elderly people, due to the prevalence of osteoporosis and accidental fall in the population. Accurate assessment of fracture risk is a crucial step for clinicians to consider patient-by-patient optimal tr...

Jan 8th, 2021 - This study estimated the direct medical costs of osteoporotic fractures from a large claims database in Korea. We compared the medical costs of hip, vertebral, and wrist fractures between two age groups (50-64 years vs 65 years and older). We used...

Jan 8th, 2021 - Early surgery has been consistently demonstrated to reduce complications and mortality in hip fracture patients. There remains no general consensus, however, regarding the optimal time to surgery for hip fracture patients who are on novel oral ant...

Sep 9th, 2019 - Background: Whether health outcomes of menopausal estrogen therapy differ between women with and without bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy (BSO) is unknown. Objective: To examine estrogen therapy outcomes by BSO status, with additional stratificati...

Nov 14th, 2018 - Osteoporosis is defined as low bone mineral density caused by altered bone microstructure ultimately predisposing patients to low-impact, fragility fractures. Osteoporotic fractures lead to a significant decrease in quality of life, with an increa...

Aug 6th, 2018 - A previous fracture increases the risk of subsequent fractures [1], even when the previous fracture is considered to be “traumatic” [2]. Since the correlation between prior fracture and future fractures is robust and at least partially independent.

Jul 31st, 2018 - Liposomal bupivacaine (LB) has demonstrated efficacy in improving pain scores and reducing opioid consumption across a variety of surgical settings, including orthopaedic surgery. However, meticulous infiltration techniques combined with a multimo.

Jun 27th, 2018 - By 2020, approximately 12.3 million individuals in the United States older than 50 years are expected to have osteoporosis. Osteoporotic fractures, particularly hip fractures, are associated with limitations in ambulation, chronic pain and disabil...

Jan 15th, 2021 - Delirium is commonly detected in older people after hip fracture. Delirium is considered to be a multifactorial disorder which is often seen post-operatively (incidence ranging from 35% to 65%). Hospitals in Australia are required to meet eight st...

Jan 14th, 2021 - Hip fractures are a large burden on the health care systems of developed nations. Patients usually have multiple co-morbidities and the pre-injury use of anticoagulants and anti-platelet medication is common. This study used a single hospital hip ...

Jan 10th, 2021 - Hip fracture is a common health risk among elderly people, due to the prevalence of osteoporosis and accidental fall in the population. Accurate assessment of fracture risk is a crucial step for clinicians to consider patient-by-patient optimal tr...

Jan 8th, 2021 - This study estimated the direct medical costs of osteoporotic fractures from a large claims database in Korea. We compared the medical costs of hip, vertebral, and wrist fractures between two age groups (50-64 years vs 65 years and older). We used...

Jan 8th, 2021 - Early surgery has been consistently demonstrated to reduce complications and mortality in hip fracture patients. There remains no general consensus, however, regarding the optimal time to surgery for hip fracture patients who are on novel oral ant...

Dec 20th, 2020 - Women treated with oral bisphosphonate drugs for osteoporosis for 5 years get no additional benefit ― in terms of hip fracture risk ― if the treatment is extended for another 5 years, new research shows. "We found that hip fracture risk in women d...

Dec 9th, 2020 - Globally, more than 200 million people are affected by osteoporosis, a metabolic bone disorder in which low bone mass and structural deterioration of bone tissue lead to increased bone fragility and susceptibility to fractures. Osteoporotic fractu...

Nov 2nd, 2020 - Getting out of bed within 36 hours of surgery after a hip fracture significantly increases the odds of earlier discharge from hospital, finds new UK research published in the journal  Age and Ageing. The researchers examined data for 135,105 patie...

Nov 2nd, 2020 - Getting out of bed within 36 hours of surgery after a hip fracture significantly increases the odds of earlier discharge from hospital, finds new UK research published in the journal  Age and Ageing. The researchers examined data for 135,105 patie...

Jul 22nd, 2020 - Takeaway Patients with moderate-to-severe chronic kidney disease (CKD) glomerular filtration rate (GFR) categories 3a-5D (G3a-G5D) are at an increased risk of hip and non-vertebral fractures compared with those without CKD G3a-G5D. The risk of hip...