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ArticleJournal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews2021

Merits of Surgical Comanagement of Patients With Hip Fracture by Dedicated Orthopaedic Hospitalists.

Nidhi Rohatgi, Yingjie Weng, Jessie Kittle, Neera Ahuja

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Article in Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. Global research & reviews, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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Nidhi RohatgiFrom the Division of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (Dr. Rohatgi, Dr. Kittle, and Dr. Ahuja), and the Quantitative Sciences Unit, Division of Biomedical Informatics Research, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, CA (Mr. Weng).ORCID 0000-0003-4574-0283
Yingjie Weng
Neera Ahuja

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backgroundRotating medical consultants, hospitalists or geriatricians, are involved in the care of patients with hip fracture, often after medical complications have already occurred. In August 2012, we implemented a unique surgical comanagement (SCM) model in which the same Internal Medicine hospitalists are dedicated year-round to the orthopaedic surgery service. We examine whether this SCM model was associated with a decrease in medical complications, length of stay, and inpatient mortality in patients with hip fracture admitted at our institution, compared with the previous model.

methodsWe included 2,252 admissions to the orthopaedic surgery service with a hip fracture between 2009 and 2018 (757 pre-SCM and 1495 post-SCM). We adjusted for age, Charlson comorbidity score, and operating time in all regression analyses.

resultsMean Charlson comorbidity score (1.6 versus 1.2) and median case mix index (2.1 versus 1.9) were higher in the post-SCM group. A 32% decrease was observed in the odds of having ≥1 medical complication(s) (odds ratio, 0.68 [95% confidence interval, 0.50 to 0.91], P = 0.009) post-SCM. No change was observed in length of stay or inpatient mortality despite an increase in medical complexity post-SCM.

conclusionHaving dedicated orthopaedic hospitalists may contribute to fewer medical complications in patients with hip fracture.

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Hip FracturesHospitalistsOrthopedicsHumansLength of StayPatient Care Team

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PMCPMC7954368

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