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Europe developing guidelines to prevent and improve care for hip fractures.
2003 FEB 13 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Several countries in Europe are currently exploring the implementation of guidelines that would prevent hip fractures or improve the quality of care given to those who experience them.
"Fractures of the femoral neck, that is, "cervical hip fractures", constitute 53% of all fractures of the proximal femur (hip fractures) according to the Swedish National Hip Fracture Register linked to SAHFE (Standardised Audit of Hip Fractures in Europe). The most reproducible classification system divides cervical hip fractures into undisplaced (33%) and displaced (67%). Hip fractures are common and costly," researchers in Sweden reported.
"Due to the expected increase in the number of elderly in the world during the coming decades the number of hip fractures will increase dramatically, particularly in developing countries. In Sweden three quarters of the patients are women, the mean age is now 81 years and half of the patients are living alone. Hip fractures are rare below 50 years of age," noted K.G. Thorngren and colleagues, University of Lund Hospital, Department of Orthopedics.
"In recent years there has been an incidence increase in the oldest ...
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