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The Social Consequences of Surgical Complications for Patients with Proximal Femoral Fractures
- Source :
- Age and Ageing. 22:360-364
- Publication Year :
- 1993
- Publisher :
- Oxford University Press (OUP), 1993.
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Abstract
- A case-matched study was performed to assess the social effects of surgical complications of operative fixation of fractures of the proximal femur. Fifty-two patients aged over sixty-five, half with deep wound infection, the remainder with serious early mechanical problems requiring revision surgery to correct these, had their hospital fatality, length of stay, mobility and social dependency at admission and on discharge compared with patients free from such complications. Deep wound infection was associated with a high fatality and in the survivors a prolonged period in hospital, a marked decline in mobility and without exception a great increase in social dependency; patients having revision surgery had a longer hospital admission, considerable alteration in social circumstances but a little decline in mobility and no significant increase in fatality when compared with matched cases.
- Subjects :
- Male
Aging
medicine.medical_specialty
Disability Evaluation
Fracture Fixation, Internal
Social support
Postoperative Complications
Activities of Daily Living
Fracture fixation
Humans
Medicine
Aged
Femoral neck
Aged, 80 and over
Proximal femur
Hip Fractures
business.industry
Sick Role
General Medicine
Length of Stay
Wound infection
Surgery
Treatment Outcome
medicine.anatomical_structure
Hospital admission
Social consequence
Female
Hip Prosthesis
Geriatrics and Gerontology
business
Complication
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14682834 and 00020729
- Volume :
- 22
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Age and Ageing
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....f14bc863fac1ce361c7356693c472e49