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Effectiveness of a co-management program with internal medicine on hip fracture patients at a regional hospital in northwest Spain. Co-inter-Monf study.
Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg
January 2025
Internal Medicine Department, Hospital Público de Monforte, Rua Corredoira s/n, Monforte de Lemos, 27400, Lugo, Spain.
Background: Hip fractures represent a serious public health problem with a high burden of mortality, morbidity, and resource use. Co-management has proven to enhance the clinical outcomes of hip fracture patients hospitalized in various settings.
Aim: This study aims to evaluate whether the previously observed benefits of co-management can be achieved when such a program is implemented in a rural-based district hospital.
Pharmaceutical Prescribing Privileges for Optometrists to Combat Childhood Myopia in Singapore: Public Health Policy Review and Analysis.
Children (Basel)
December 2024
Institute of Epidemiology and Healthcare, Faculty of Population Health Sciences, University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.
Singapore's national myopia prevention efforts have largely focused on school vision screening and public education on outdoor activities in the past two decades. Given the emergence of evidence-based myopia interventions, this policy review and analysis investigates the potential benefits and drawbacks of optometrist prescribing privileges as it has been proposed to reduce the barriers to access effective interventions, such as combined therapy (e.g.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFConjoint effect of post-discharge physical exercise and co-managed care on health outcomes of older patients with hip fracture in China: A post-hoc factorial analysis.
Geriatr Nurs
November 2024
School of Public Health, Harbin Medical University, Harbin, Heilongjiang, China; The George Institute for Global Health, The University of New South Wales, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Electronic address:
Objectives: The study aimed to explore the effects of post-discharge physical exercise combined with co-managed care on health the outcomes of older patients with hip fracture.
Methods: Based on a completed non-randomised controlled trial which evaluated a co-managed care of patients aged 65 years and above with hip fracture, provided by orthopedists and geriatricians within an acute setting, a retrospective post-hoc factorial analysis was further conducted. The analysis observed the health outcomes of older patients with post-discharge physical exercise combined with co-managed care within hospitals compared to those had either post-discharge physical exercise or co-managed care.
An Additional Certification as a Centre for Geriatric Trauma Had No Benefit on Mortality Among Seriously Injured Elderly Patients-An Analysis of the TraumaRegister DGU with Data of the Registry for Geriatric Trauma (ATR-DGU).
J Clin Med
November 2024
Committee on Emergency Medicine, Intensive Care and Trauma Management (Sektion NIS) of the German Trauma Society (DGU), 51109 Cologne, Germany.
: The number of seriously injured elderly patients is continuously rising. Several studies have underlined the benefit of orthogeriatric co-management in treating older patients with a proximal femur fracture. The basis of this orthogeriatric co-management is a certification as a Centre for Geriatric Trauma (ATZ).
View Article and Find Full Text PDFEvaluation of drug prescriptions on hospital admission in older trauma patients using the Fit fOR The Aged (FORTA) rules.
Z Gerontol Geriatr
December 2024
Department of Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, Heinrich-Heine-University, Moorenstraße 5, 40225, Duesseldorf, Germany.
Background: Orthogeriatric comanagement of older patients with hip fractures has been proven to provide significant benefits concerning functional status, readmissions, nursing home placement, in-hospital complications and mortality. Medication management in older individuals is a cornerstone in orthogeriatric comanagement. The aim of the study was to analyze the extent of overprescription and undertreatment in older trauma patients.
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