Arranging Hospice Care from the Emergency Department: A Single Center Retrospective Study.

Background: Arranging hospice services from the Emergency Department (ED) can be difficult due to physician discomfort, time constraints, and the intensity of care coordination needed. We report patient and visit characteristics associated with successful transition from the ED directly to hospice.

Methods: Setting: Academic ED with 82,000 annual visits.

Frailty predicts mortality and complications in chronologically young patients with traumatic orthopaedic injuries.

Background: As morbidity and mortality from traumatic orthopaedic injuries continues to rise, increased research is being conducted on how to best predict complications in at risk patients. Recently, frailty indices have been validated in a variety of surgical subspecialties as predictors of morbidity and mortality. However, the vast majority of research has been conducted on geriatric patient populations, with little evidence on patients who are chronologically young.