Methods Records of 428 consecutive hip fracture patients were collected on a population-basis and data on the general population comprising all Finns 65 years of age or older were collected on a ...
Medically and mentally disruptive health events such as hip fracture or pneumonia can change the clinical path for  people with dementia. That conclusion was based on results of a study published ...
After the medical risks have been identified and quantified, it should be possible for the patient to compare the benefit of hip replacement ... periprosthetic fracture. Very elderly patients ...
But a recent study reveals a troubling reality: those living in care facilities in the United States between 1910 and 1967 ...
Something like half of people who fracture their hips wind up in a nursing home type setting for at least some period of time. And that is demoralizing, difficult, emotionally stressful and not a ...
Hip fracture causes excess mortality due to cardiovascular and infectious disease in institutionalized older people: a prospective five-year study. J. Bone Miner. Res. doi: 10.1359/jbmr.