258 FLEXIT: Geriatric Muscle on the Orthopedic Ward

Geriatric intervention in elderly patients with hip fracture in an orthopedic ward

BACKGROUND Hip fracture is a common cause of long hospital stay in the elderly. Approximately one third of these patients die within the first year. As a consequence geriatric and orthopedic collaboration (orthogeriatrics) has been organized in different ways. The aim of this study is to evaluate the efficiency of a multidisciplinary geriatric in-hospital intervention on patient outcome. METH...

Predictors of adverse outcomes on an acute geriatric rehabilitation ward.

BACKGROUND multidisciplinary rehabilitation is of proven benefit in the management of older inpatients. However, the identification of patients who will do well with rehabilitation currently lacks a strong evidence base. OBJECTIVES the aims of this study were to compare the importance of chronological age, gender, co-morbidities and frailty in the prediction of adverse outcomes for patients a...

An objective evaluation of geriatric ward meetings.

Geriatric patients in an acute medical ward.

During a nine-month study 160 out of 482 bed-weeks in an acute medical ward were accounted for by 11 patients who no longer needed to be there. This was unsatisfactory both for the 11 patients concerned and for those patients requiring admission for whom the beds were blocked.

Geriatric High-Energy Polytrauma With Orthopedic Injuries

BACKGROUND The impact of orthopedic injuries in the elderly patient with multi-trauma and the effect of operative fixation on these injuries have not been thoroughly evaluated. METHODS We reviewed geriatric patients (aged 65 and older) between 2004 and 2010 at a level 1 trauma center who sustained high-energy polytrauma (injury and severity score [ISS] ≥ 16) with associated orthopedic injurie...