Hip fracture patients fare best during recovery in high-occupancy nursing homes with higher level physician staffing
Friday, November 4, 2016 - 13:01
in Health & Medicine
Hip fractures are a common and disabling condition that occurs more than 300,000 times each year in the United States in those 65 and older—1.6 million times worldwide. A new study, which compared outcome variations in acute and post-acute care facilities, suggests that for older adults hospitalized with hip fracture, the quality of the post-acute care they receive has a greater impact on long-term recovery than the care they received at the hospital.