Search results for "hip fractures"
A bone to pick
Osteoporosis is undertreated in fragility fracture patients. Hospitalists have an opportunity to help close that gap.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2024/01/24/a-bone-to-pick.htm
24 Jan 2024
AI can diagnose hip fracture as accurately as clinicians, review finds
Machine learning models trained to diagnose hip fractures from hip or pelvic radiographs had similar diagnostic error rates as expert radiologists and surgeons, according to a new systematic review of studies based on 39,598 X-rays and 714,939 hip fractures.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/03/22/ai-can-diagnose-hip-fracture-as-accurately-as-clinicians-review-finds.htm
22 Mar 2023
Fixing hip fracture outcomes
Orthos, geriatricians, and hospitalists at one hospital collaborated to apply age-friendly strategies in their hip fracture care.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2023/02/08/fixing-hip-fracture-outcomes.htm
8 Feb 2023
Teams to improve hip fracture, heart failure
This issue looks at comanagement of hip fractures, prescribing for heart failure, antibiotic use in COVID-19, and private equity ownership of hospitals.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/letter-from-the-editor.htm
15 Dec 2020
Helping hip fracture patients
Is comanagement the answer?
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/12/helping-hip-fracture-patients.htm
15 Dec 2020
A path for patients returning after joint replacement
The orthopedics service worked with hospital medicine and took more readmitted patients.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2020/10/success-story-a-path-for-patients-returning-after-joint-replacement.htm
15 Oct 2020
Risk of mortality may be increased when hip fracture repair wait time exceeds 24 hours
Targeting surgery within 24 hours would represent a significant change in practice because the majority of patients did not receive surgery within this timeframe, study authors noted.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2017/12/06/2.htm
6 Dec 2017
Recent Research
Acupuncture versus morphine for acute pain relief, outcomes data for physicians, beta-blockers at discharge after elective PCI, and more.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2016/12/recent-research.htm
15 Dec 2016
Drugs associated with fractures continued in patients who had fragility fractures
Approximately 7% of patients discontinued fracture-risk drugs after a hip, shoulder, or wrist fracture, but about an equal percentage started a drug in the category after the fracture.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/weekly/archives/2016/08/24/1.htm
24 Aug 2016
Palliative med conference offers advice on hip fracture, treatment withdrawal, organ donation
News from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine's annual assembly.
https://acphospitalist.acponline.org/archives/2015/05/conference-palliative.htm
15 May 2015