Factors Affecting Mortality and Hospital Admissions after Hip Surgery among Elderly Patients with Hip Fracture in Hong Kong - Review of a Three-Year Follow-Up.

Objective: Hip fracture is associated with excess mortalities and high rate of hospital re-admission after discharge from the indexed episode. To improve related post-discharge care, we aimed to find out characteristics that were associated with related higher rates of mortality and hospital re-admission.

Methods: This was a historical cohort study with following up of 273 patients recruited in a local rehabilitation hospital for 3 years.

Scheduled analgesic regimen improves rehabilitation after hip fracture surgery.

Background: Postoperative pain often is the limiting factor in the rehabilitation of patients after hip fracture surgery.

Questions/purposes: We compared an approach using scheduled analgesic dosing with as-needed analgesic dosing in patients after hip fracture surgery, to compare these approaches in terms of (1) resting and dynamic pain intensity, (2) postoperative patient mobility, and (3) functional end points.

Methods: We conducted a prospective cohort study of 400 patients who underwent surgical treatment of hip fractures at our hospital.