A Maastricht UMC + pilot for the treatment of hip fractures shows that the mortality rate decreases by fifty percent with a new treatment method.
To improve the treatment of hip fractures, they started a pilot in 2018, in which nurse specialists were deployed to patients with hip fractures. This was not without success, as the figures show. On average, one in three patients usually dies from a hip fracture within a year.
“Many older people are vulnerable. When they fall, they often break a hip. They usually also have to contend with various other conditions, such as diabetes or cardiovascular disease, ”says medical specialist Bart Spaetgens. This underlying suffering makes the elderly a ‘complex patient group’, in which a treating orthopedist is not specialized.
Positive side effects of the pilot are that patients spend an average of two days less on orthopedics and that considerably more patients go home instead of to a rehabilitation location.
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