Open AccessGeriatric patients with hip fracture: Frailty and other risk factors affecting the outcome
Author(s) -
Bindu K Vasu,
Kruthika P Ramamurthi,
Sunil Rajan,
Mathew George
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
al-banǧ. maqālāt wa abḥāṯ fī al-taẖdīr wa-al-in’āš
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0259-1162
DOI - 10.4103/aer.aer_61_18
Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , observational study , prospective cohort study , odds ratio , geriatrics , dementia , physical therapy , emergency medicine , surgery , osteoporosis , disease , psychiatry
Hip fracture is a devastating health-care problem in a geriatric patient, leading to high mortality and morbidity. Preoperative risk assessment in the geriatric patient is often inexact because of the difficulty in measuring their poor physiologic reserves.