Older patients have the most to gain from orthopaedic enhanced recovery programmes

Age and Ageing

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 642-648

  Starks, Ian ^a   Wainwright, Thomas W ^b,c   Lewis, Jenny ^d   Lloyd, John ^b   Middleton, Robert G ^b,c  

^a WREXHAM MAELOR HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b ROYAL BOURNEMOUTH HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c BOURNEMOUTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d Dr Foster Intelligence London ^*  (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Elderly; Enhanced; Older people; Orthopaedic; Recovery

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT;

AGE; CONVALESCENCE; ENGLAND; HIP REPLACEMENT; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; KNEE REPLACEMENT; LENGTH OF STAY; MOBILIZATION; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; PHYSIOTHERAPY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; REHABILITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TIME FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANALGESICS; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, KNEE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; EARLY AMBULATION; ENGLAND; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; PATIENT DISCHARGE; PATIENT READMISSION; PHYSICAL THERAPY MODALITIES; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 84906885729     PISSN: 00020729     EISSN: 14682834     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ageing/afu014     Document Type: Article

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