Prevention of Delirium Among Elderly Patients With Hip Fractures

Zhoupu Hospital, Pudong New Area, Shanghai, China

Status: Completed

Conditions: Hip Fractures; Delirium

Treatments: Other: Care bundle

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03470662

YuFengbinDelirium

Details and patient eligibility

About

Objective: To evaluate the effect of care bundle on prevention of delirium among elderly patients with hip fractures.

Methods: A prospective randomized case control study was performed for 80 patients (≥65 years) with hip fractures treated surgically according to their ages and the type of fractures from March 1th of 2017 to June 30th of 2017．There were 11 males and 69 females, with the age of (79.3±7.84) years. Confusion assessment method (CAM) was applied to diagnose delirium after surgery, the subjects were randomized divided into experimental group (n=43) and control group (n=37). The parameters next were recorded and analyzed, including age, gender, type of fractures, type of internal instrument, amount of bleeding, time between injured to surgery, time length of operation, type of operation, VAS, incidence of delirium, perioperative complications and adverse events.

Enrollment: 80 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 65+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• ≥65 years
• with hip fractures
• treated surgically

Exclusion criteria

• <65 years
• psychiatric history
• ICU post-operation
• refuse to join this study
• have delirium pre-operation

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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80 participants in 2 patient groups

experimental group

Experimental group

Description:

Care bundle

Treatment:

Other: Care bundle

control group

No Intervention group

Description:

routine care