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Clinical: The efficacy of hip protectors.(hip fracture prevention)
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Hip fractures account for most admissions in the elderly. Dr Martyn Parker assesses whether protectors help.
A hip fracture is the commonest reason for an elderly person to be admitted to an acute orthopaedic ward. Currently about 77,000 admissions in England each year are for a hip fracture.
The average age of such patients is 80 years and approximately 80 per cent are female. Most fractures are treated surgically. About 5-10 per cent of patients die within three months of the injury, and of the survivors some will be unable to return home and others will have increased disability.
The aetiology of the fracture is complex, with a combination of a fall in conjunction with loss of protective mechanism to absorb the impact of the fall and weakened bone strength.
Preventive method
One proposed method for the prevention of these fractures is by…
- Review: Hip protectors reduce hip fractures after falls in elderly people...
- Magazine article from: Evidence-Based Nursing January 1, 2002 700+ words
...Gillespie LD, Gillespie WJ. Hip protectors for preventing hip fractures in the elderly. Cochrane...that patients allocated to hip protectors had fewer hip fractures than those allocated to no hip protectors (table). Each of 3 studies...
- Hip protectors and hip fractures.
- Magazine article from: Age and Ageing JANTTI, PIRKKO O. AHO, HEIKKI J. MAKI-JOKELA, PAIVI-LIISA HEIKINHEIMO, RAUNO J. November 1, 1998 700+ words
...expanding use of hip protectors is the best and...of the number of hip fractures can be turned downwards...home residents wear hip protectors? Age Ageing 1998...Effect of external hip protectors on hip fractures. Lancet 1993...
- Effect on hip fractures of increased use of hip protectors in nursing homes:...
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal Meyer, Gabriele Warnke, Andrea Bender, R Muhlhauser, I January 11, 2003 700+ words
...provision of two hip protectors per cluster for...measure Incidence of hip fractures. Results Mean...provision of free hip protectors in nursing homes...the number of hip fractures. Introduction...encourage the use of hip protectors. We evaluated...there ...
- Use of hip protectors in nursing homes. (Primary Care).(for the prevention of...
- Newspaper article from: Neurology Alert Kuritzky, Louis May 1, 2003 700+ words
...THAT USE OF HIP protectors (HIP) has...incidence of hip fractures, actual use...have not seen hip protectors before, they...effectiveness of hip protectors. Staff was...can reduce hip fractures by more than...
- GP RESOURCES: EQUIPMENT REVIEW - Save lives with new hip protectors - Bury GP...
- Magazine article from: GP Standing, Peter July 8, 2002 700+ words
...of surgery. Hip fractures normally result...the risk of hip fractures is worth pursuing...prevention are hip protectors. These work...Cochrane review of hip protectors found a definite...per cent of hip fractures might be prevented...
- Independent Nurse: Clinical - Geriatrics - Examining the efficacy of hip...
- Magazine article from: GP Parker, Martyn October 27, 2006 700+ words
...of behaviour that reduced falls and hip fractures. Some of the studies involved educating staff and participants on hip protectors and hip fractures. Compliance with wearing the hip protectors in all the studies was poor, with...
- Papers that could influence your practice.(hip protectors, statins,...
- Magazine article from: The Practitioner June 4, 2003 700+ words
...effectiveness of external hip protectors in reducing hip fractures in the elderly, their...controlled trial of hip protectors in an elderly high risk...Lips P. Prevention of hip fractures by external hip protectors - a randomized controlled...
- Effectiveness of hip protectors. (Letters).(Letter to the Editor)
- Magazine article from: British Medical Journal April 26, 2003 700+ words
...Effect on hip fractures of increased use of hip protectors in nursing...Effect on hip fractures of increased use of hip protectors in nursing...controlled trial of hip protectors for the prevention of second hip fractures. Osteoporos...
- Hip protectors can reduce fractures by 40%.(Brief Article)
- Newspaper article from: Medical Devices & Surgical Technology Week February 2, 2003 700+ words
...net) -- The use of hip protectors in nursing homes can reduce hip fractures by about 40%, yet acceptance of hip protectors is poor, according...fracture (Effect on hip fractures of increased use of hip protectors in nursing homes...
- Hip protectors fail to benefit nursing home residents: randomized U.S. trial...
- Magazine article from: Internal Medicine News Wendling, Patrice June 1, 2006 700+ words
...randomized entire nursing homes have shown that hip protectors reduce the risk of hip fractures, pooled data from eight studies that randomized...review (BMJ 2006;332:571-4) "found hip protectors to be ineffective for those living at home...
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