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Journal Article
Quality of life following hip fractures: results from the Norwegian hip fracture register
2016
Overview
Background
Patient-reported health-related quality of life is an important outcome measure when assessing the quality of hip fracture surgery. The frequently used EQ-5D index score has unfortunately important limitations. One alternative can be to assess the distribution of each of the five dimensions of the patients’ descriptive health profile. The objective of this paper was to investigate health-related quality of life (HRQoL) after hip fractures.
Methods
Data from hip fracture operations from 2005 through 2012 were obtained from The Norwegian Hip Fracture Register. Patient reported HRQoL, (EQ-5D-3L) was collected from patients preoperatively and at four and twelve months postoperatively
n
= 10325. At each follow-up the distribution of the EQ-5D-3L and mean pain VAS was calculated.
Results
Generally, a higher proportion of patients reported problems in all 5 dimensions of the EQ-5D-3L at all follow-ups compared to preoperative. Also a high proportion of patients with no preoperative problems reported problems after surgery; At 4 and 12 months follow-ups 71 % and 58 % of the patients reported walking problems, and 65 % and 59 % of the patients reported pain respectively. Patients with femoral neck fractures and the youngest patients (age < 70 years) reported least problems both preoperatively and at all follow-ups.
Conclusions
A hip fracture has a dramatic impact on the patients’ HRQoL, and the deterioration in HRQoL sustained also one year after the fracture. Separate use of the descriptive profile of the EQ-5D is informative when assessing quality of life after hip fracture surgery.
Publisher
BioMed Central,BioMed Central Ltd
Subject
/ Aged
/ Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip - adverse effects
/ Arthroplasty, Replacement, Hip - statistics & numerical data
/ Female
/ Femoral Neck Fractures - complications
/ Femoral Neck Fractures - epidemiology
/ Femoral Neck Fractures - surgery
/ Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary - adverse effects
/ Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary - instrumentation
/ Fracture Fixation, Intramedullary - statistics & numerical data
/ Hemiarthroplasty - adverse effects
/ Hemiarthroplasty - statistics & numerical data
/ Hip Fractures - complications
/ Hip Fractures - epidemiology
/ Humans
/ Male
/ Medicine
/ physical therapy and occupational health
/ Registries - statistics & numerical data
/ Reoperation - adverse effects
