Implementation of an electronic care pathway for hip fracture patients: a pilot before and after study.

Background: Care pathways are generally paper-based and can cause communication failures between multidisciplinary teams, potentially compromising the safety of the patient. Computerized care pathways may facilitate better communication between clinical teams. This study aimed to investigate whether an electronic care pathway (e-pathway) reduces delays in surgery and hospital length of stay compared to a traditional paper-based care pathway (control) in hip fracture patients.

Perioperative and long-term all-cause mortality in patients with diabetes who underwent a lower extremity amputation.

Introduction: Long-term mortality of patients with diabetes who undergo lower extremity amputation (LEA) has not been reported in Spain.

Methods: The retrospective cohort included all subjects who underwent LEAs from January 1, 2005 to December 31, 2015 in San Jorge Hospital, Huesca, Spain. Live status of every patient up to September 2017 and the date of death were retrieved using the national death index.