Examining the relationships between patients' multimorbidity trajectories and prognostic outcomes after the initial hip fracture.

ABSTRACT: Hip fractures significantly affect patients' health and quality of life. Despite therapeutic treatments, many patients continue to experience poor prognoses that include recurrent fractures and mortality, especially the older ones. Therefore, understanding important factors associated with post-fracture prognoses is critical. This study focuses on patients' multimorbidity trajectories and examines how the trajectory's time span, number of coexisting chronic diseases, and sequential disease patterns relate to distinct prognostic outcomes. From the National Health Insurance Research Database in Taiwan, we obtain a sample of 128,822 patients who suffered an initial hip fracture between 1996 and 2011. We use this sample to analyze the relationships between multimorbidity trajectories and progn

SUBMITTER: Sheng JQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11569216 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature