Early rehabilitation at home of elderly patients with hip fractures and consumption of resources in primary care
Engelsk titel: Early rehabilitation at home of elderly patients with hip fractures and consumption of resources in primary care
Författare:
Jarnlo, Gun-Britt
;
Ceder, Leif
;
Thorngren, Karl-Göran
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 11
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 3514
Sammanfattning
From 1976 onwards an active rehabilitation programme has been applied to elderly patients with fresh hip fractures at the Department of Orthopaedics in Lund in Southern Sweden. The purposes of this investigation were to evaluate the effect to this programme in primary care and to assess the consumption of resources for rehabilitation at home of patients with cervical or trochanteric hip fractures. Early at home rehalibitation of elderly patients with hip fractures gives good results at a minimal cost and is thus of advantage both to the patient and to the community.