Vitamin D deficiency in hip fracture patients is associated with an increased mortality risk.

Purpose: The aims were to assess whether vitamin D deficiency influenced mortality risk and length of acute hospital stay in patients presenting with a hip fracture.

Methods: A retrospective study was undertaken including all patients aged over 50 years that were admitted with a hip fracture to a single centre during a 24-month period. Serum vitamin D levels on admission, patient demographics, perioperative variables and mortality were collected.

Clinical frailty is independently associated with joint-specific function and health-related quality of life in patients awaiting a total hip or knee arthroplasty.

The aims were to assess whether preoperative joint-specific function (JSF) and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) were associated with level of clinical frailty in patients waiting for a primary total hip arthroplasty (THA) or knee arthroplasty (KA). Patients waiting for a THA (n = 100) or KA (n = 100) for more than six months were prospectively recruited from the study centre. Overall,162 patients responded to the questionnaire (81 THA; 81 KA).

Significant deterioration in quality of life and increased frailty in patients waiting more than six months for total hip or knee arthroplasty : a cross-sectional multicentre study.

Aims: The primary aim of this study was to assess whether patients waiting six months or more for a total hip (THA) or knee (KA) arthroplasty had a deterioration in their health-related quality of life (HRQoL). Secondary aims were to assess changes in frailty and the number of patients living in a state considered to be worse than death (WTD), and factors associated with changes in HRQoL and frailty.

Methods: This cross-sectional study included 326 patients, 150 males (46.

Epidemiology of American Football Injuries at Universities in the United Kingdom.

Background: College-level American football injury data are routinely collected; however, data relating to American football injuries at universities in the United Kingdom have never been reported.

Purpose: To describe the epidemiology of UK university American football injuries.

Study Design: Descriptive epidemiology study.

The impact of a preoperative information leaflet on expectation management, satisfaction and patient outcomes in patients undergoing knee arthroscopy.

Background: This study examined the effects of a patient information leaflet on outcomes related to patient satisfaction following knee arthroscopy.

Methods: Cohort study of patients listed for knee arthroscopy under the care of a single surgeon over a nine-month period (May 2017-January 2018) following the introduction of an information leaflet as an adjunct to the consent process. Outcome data was collected postoperatively through telephone follow-up.