Improving healthcare efficiency with coordination between levels of care: orthogeriatrics/Mejora de la eficiencia asistencial con la coordinación interniveles: ortogeriatría

HF patients often require long stays on trauma wards due to their age [1], other characteristics (multiple pathologies and medications, as well high rates of cognitive impairment and acute complications) and the difficulty of them returning home given their functional deterioration. Further, therapies for functional recovery, indicated in these patients to help them return to their previous level of independence, tend to be applied late, and fail to reach all patients who could potentially make a good recovery; this means social and healthcare costs associated with a level of dependency that could have been avoided.