The interdisciplinary fracture liaison service improves health-related outcomes and survival of older adults after hip fracture surgical repair.

ABSTRACT: Due to the high burden of fragility fractures, we developed an interdisciplinary FLS care pathway for early management and monitoring of older adults discharged from a high-volume trauma center after hip fracture repair. Interdisciplinary FLS effectively improves up to 1-year adherence to treatments for secondary prevention of fragility fractures, reduces health facility admission, and improves long-term survival.

Purpose

To compare adherence to secondary fragility fracture prevention, falls, healthcare facility admissions, and mortality between hip fracture older adults who entered the fracture liaison services pathway of care (FLS-CP) and those managed according to the usual traumatologist model of care (U-CP).

Methods

Prospective observational study enrolling subjects aged

SUBMITTER: Ruggiero C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9576663 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature