Improving Quality of Care for Hip-Fracture Patients: Studies on Fast-track Surgery (Q-HIP)

Danderyd Hospital

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fractures

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01487772

2010/685-32

Details and patient eligibility

About

The aims of the studies are to examine the impact of delayed time to surgery for hip-fracture patients with regard to in-hospital complication rate and one-year mortality and to evaluate two different fast-track systems for hip-fracture patients with regard to patient outcome, complication rate and patient satisfaction.

Full description

The aims of the studies are to examine the impact of delayed time to surgery for hip-fracture patients with regard to in-hospital complication rate and one-year mortality and to evaluate two different fast-track systems, the hip process pathway and the ambulance process pathway, for hip-fracture patients with regard to patient outcome, complication rate and patient satisfaction.

Enrollment: 1,307 patients

Sex: All

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Hip fracture

Exclusion criteria

• Periprosthetic fractures
• Pathological fractures

Trial design

1,307 participants in 1 patient group

Hip-fracture patients

Description:

Hip-fracture patients admitted to Orthopaedic Department of Danderyd Hospital