Epidemiological comparison between proximal femur fractures in a secondary and a tertiary hospital
Aim: to compare the occurrence of femur fractures treated in a secondary and in a tertiary hospitals.Method: the sample of this study consisted of all patients who had fractures of the proximal femur treated at two hospital services, from 2015 to 2017, and the medical records were evaluated.Results:...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2021 |
| País: | Brasil |
| Institución: | Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) |
| Repositorio: | Scientia Medica (Porto Alegre. Online) |
| Idioma: | portugués |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br:article/39421 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://revistaseletronicas.pucrs.br/scientiamedica/article/view/39421 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | orthopedics traumatology epidemiology femur fractures ortopedia traumatologia epidemiologia fêmur fraturas |
| Sumario: | Aim: to compare the occurrence of femur fractures treated in a secondary and in a tertiary hospitals.Method: the sample of this study consisted of all patients who had fractures of the proximal femur treated at two hospital services, from 2015 to 2017, and the medical records were evaluated.Results: a greater number of surgeries has been performed at the tertiary hospital, although the secondary hospital patients had the highest number of complications, resulted probably by longer waiting times for the procedure, including surgeries that needed to be scheduled. It is also likely that this fact implied in a longer hospital stay and the need for referral to the Intensive Unit Care in the immediate postoperative period, also observed in secondary hospitals.Conclusion: these results call attention to the need to reformulate the protocols for the care of patients with proximal fracture of the femur, to solve the problems presented here. |
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