Purity, pragmatism and hip protector pads

Do hip pads help prevent hip fractures?

Hip protector compliance in an acute hospital setting

Objectives. To examine compliance for a newly designed hip protector and reasons for non-compliance among elderly participants with a moderate-to-high risk of falls. Methods. This was a descriptive observational study conducted in acute aged care wards at the Bankstown Hospital, Sydney, Australia. Seventeen in-patients aged between 71 and 95 years in the four aged care wards at the Bankstown Ho...

Prevention of hip fracture in elderly people with use of a hip protector.

BACKGROUND Hip fractures are common in frail elderly adults worldwide. We investigated the effect of an anatomically designed external hip protector on the risk of these age-related fractures. METHODS We randomly assigned 1801 ambulatory but frail elderly adults (1409 women and 392 men; mean age, 82 years), in a 1:2 ratio, either to a group that wore a hip protector or to a control group. Fra...

Efficacy of a hip protector to prevent hip fracture in nursing home residents: the HIP PRO randomized controlled trial.

CONTEXT Past studies of the efficacy of hip protectors to prevent hip fracture in nursing home residents have had conflicting results, possibly due to potential biases from clustered randomization designs and modest adherence to intervention. OBJECTIVE To determine whether an energy-absorbing and energy-dispersing hip protector would reduce the risk of hip fracture when worn by nursing home r...

Jerome Bruner and William James Regarding Pragmatism ’ s Does Pragmatism

As its most basic mission, pragmatism sets out to determine an idea’s merit by examining its practical consequences, rather than through purely abstract evaluation. As a result of this emphasis on an idea’s effectiveness, the complex ways in which pragmatists conceive of abstract notions such as truth and self-concept are often overlooked. Close examination of the works of two pragmatist thinke...