Improving Functional Recovery After Hip Fracture

Launched by NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ARTHRITIS AND MUSCULOSKELETAL AND SKIN DISEASES (NIAMS) · Jan 29, 2000

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ClinConnect Summary

The specific aims of this project are to (a) implement an intervention program of patient education focused on self-efficacy (the belief that one's actions are responsible for successful outcomes) and strength training designed to improve the postoperative rehabilitation of older persons (65 years of age and older) who have sustained a fracture of the hip; and (b) evaluate in a randomized trial the efficacy of this intervention program to improve the overall postoperative functional status of such patients and decrease the rate of their subsequent institutionalization.

The study will also ...

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Eligibility criteria

• Inclusion Criteria:
• • Patients who are 65 years of age and older, and who have been admitted for a hip fracture to the Fracture Service at New York Presbyterian Hospital.
• Exclusion Criteria:
• • Patients who are unable to give informed consent on the 4th or 5th day after surgery.
• • Patients whose hip fracture is due to underlying disease, secondary to malignancy (cancer).
• • Patients who do not speak English.
• • Patients for whom exercise is contraindicated or whose physicians believe that exercise is contraindicated.
• • Patients who do not have access to a telephone or cannot be reached by telephone.
• • Patients and physicians who refuse to participate or who intend to relocate upon discharge.

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