Open AccessThe ‘dawn hip‘ initiative: one year on
Author(s) -
O Nzeako,
O Neen,
Philip Housden
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
bulletin of the royal college of surgeons of england
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1478-7075
pISSN - 1473-6357
DOI - 10.1308/147363514x13990346756607
Subject(s) - medicine , incidence (geometry) , quarter (canadian coin) , population ageing , osteoporosis , hip fracture , fragility fracture , fragility , population , gerontology , falling (accident) , demography , pediatrics , geography , environmental health , bone mineral , chemistry , physics , archaeology , sociology , optics
The implications of osteoporosis are vast and growing because of the associated mortality, morbidity and cost of providing clinical care to an ageing population. in england in 2012–2013, there were almost 400,000 fractures presenting to hospital, the majority in old age, with over a quarter of these being hip fractures. 1 This is the most devastating of the fragility fractures. The incidence has risen by about 2% per year. Projections suggest that if this continues, the current incidence of 113,000 will increase to 130,000 in 2020.