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Orthopedic Trauma Directions 2011; 9(1): 15-21
DOI: 10.1055/s-0030-1267072
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Hip fractures

Inpatient rehabilitation designed for geriatric patients following hip fracture: a critique and the results of a recent metaanalysis
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26 January 2011 (online)

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Summary

This recent metaanalysis included an evaluation of nine randomized controlled trials that studied the rehabilitation of geriatric patients who had suffered a hip fracture. Using pooling of the aggregate data from each study, functional improvements were significantly better for those patients who received a multidisciplinary inpatient rehabilitation program compared with those who received usual care, both at discharge and at longer term follow-up. There was less risk of nursing home admission and also of mortality in the rehabilitated patients compared with the usual care patients.