Experience of medical care which is provided to patients of older age groups with a hip fracture in Yaroslavl region

Hip fractures are severe and life-threatening injuries with huge social, medical and economic consequences and a high mortality rate. The article is devoted to the organization of medical care in older patients group who received a hip fracture due to osteoporosis. Based on the experience of the Yaroslavl emergency medical care hospital n.a. N.V. Solovyov we analyze how the providing of medical care for these patients has changed over the past 10 years. A whole range of measures was introduced to ensure timely hospitalization, round-the-clock examination, availability of free metal structures, therapeutic support and early rehabilitation of patients. The result of these measures was the reduction in hospital mortality from 9.66% to 1.44%, the increase of operational activity from 71% to 92%, and the increase of the number of patients operated on within 48 hours from 0.3% to 82%. In addition, patients with low-energy fractures need implementing measures of falls prevention and prescription of the treatment for osteoporosis. These approaches help to reduce the frequency of further low-energy fractures and mortality of these patients. For this purpose, the secondary fracture prevention service (FLS) was created in this hospital. The service organized an active patients’ identification, fractures and falls risk assessment, prescription of osteoporosis therapy, recommendation of non-drug measures and physical training, and development of a plan for further monitoring of the patient. These approaches allowed to achieve high efficiency of the service: identification up to 97% in patients with fracture, prescription of drug therapy to 78% of patients. Thus, the introduction of a whole range of measures has significantly improved the quality indicators of medical care for patients with hip fractures.

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