Does place of residence influence hospital rehabilitation and assessment of falls and osteoporosis risk following admission with hip fracture?

摘要

Hip fractures account for approximately 80,000 hospital admissions per annum in the United Kingdom [1] with numbers predicted to rise steeply in the coming years [2-5]. Nursing home residents contribute to around a quarter of these, reflecting this population's increased level of frailty [1]. The Scottish Hip Fracture Audit (SHFA) Rehabilitation Report 2007 has shown that median length of hospital stay for patients admitted from care homes was 10 days compared with 27 days for patients admitted from their own homes [6].