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Review
. 2020 Oct 24:14:8-13.
doi: 10.1016/j.jcot.2020.10.045. eCollection 2021 Mar.

Post-discharge complications in postoperative patients with hip fracture

Umi Istianah  1 , Intansari Nurjannah  2 , Rahadyan Magetsari  3
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Review

Post-discharge complications in postoperative patients with hip fracture

Umi Istianah et al. J Clin Orthop Trauma. .

Abstract

Hip fractures often occur in elderly people and are a major global health challenge causing many consequences, both in health and socioeconomic costs. This review aimed to identify complications that occur in patients with postoperative hip fracture between 30 days and 60 months after discharge. This review was conducted on articles published from 2005 to 2017 obtained from the EBSCO, PubMed, ProQuest and Google Scholar databases. The literature search followed PRISMA Guidelines. Key search words included the terms: hip fracture, complication, postoperative, community, and nursing. Articles were considered eligible if discussed the complications of hip fracture with surgical treatment, occurring post hospital discharge and the patient was in the community. In this review, 23 articles were included that met the inclusion criteria. There were 16 articles that cohort studies, 3 were retrospective studies, 3 were randomized control trials and 1 article was an observational study. The time of observation varied from 30 days to the longest of 5 years. Quality assessment of the levels of evidence used the Oxford CEBM recommendations. The review results found that postoperative hip fracture patients after discharge still experienced various complications after 30 days and up to 1-3 years post-operation.

Keywords: Complications; Hip fracture; Literature review; Post-discharge; Postoperative.

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Conflict of interest statement

The author (s) declared no conflicts of interest.

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