2000
DOI: 10.3310/hta4020
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Geriatric rehabilitation following fractures in older people: a systematic review.

Abstract: et al. Geriatric rehabilitation following fractures in older people: a systematic review. Health Technol Assess 2000;4(2). Health Technology Assessment is indexed in Index Medicus/MEDLINE and Excerpta Medica/ EMBASE. Copies of the Executive Summaries are available from the NCCHTA web site (see overleaf). NHS R&D HTA Programme T he overall aim of the NHS R&D Health Technology Assessment (HTA) programme is to ensure that high-quality research information on the costs, effectiveness and broader impact of health t… Show more

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“…Formulation of the questions, however, resulted in different degrees of subjectivity. For example, a section to assess external validity would have one question that required an additional judgment of ''representativeness'' of the study population to the target population and another question that can have a definitive answer, such as the length of the follow up greater than or less than 1 year [70].…”
Section: Quality Assessment With Scales or Checklistsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Formulation of the questions, however, resulted in different degrees of subjectivity. For example, a section to assess external validity would have one question that required an additional judgment of ''representativeness'' of the study population to the target population and another question that can have a definitive answer, such as the length of the follow up greater than or less than 1 year [70].…”
Section: Quality Assessment With Scales or Checklistsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…A trend towards earlier functional independence, reduced length of stay, improved management of medical conditions and decreased future need for institutional care, including nursing home care has been demonstrated in the literature [3][4][5]. In 2007 the British Orthopaedic Association published a collaborative paper summarising the evidence base regarding the care of patients with fragility fracture [6].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Medical care and rehabilitation are supervised by a geriatrician, often with the help of a specialized general practitioner. There is no evidence, however, that length of stay is reduced in a GORU compared to a conventional unit [27].…”
Section: Recommendations From Two Most Recently Updated Guidelines Fomentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Factors such as complexity of case mix, service context, details of service organisation and multi-disciplinary inputs, and even healthcare reimbursement systems, can add greatly to the problems normally associated with the organisation of large scale clinical trials involving older patients [20,27].…”
Section: Recommendations From Two Most Recently Updated Guidelines Fomentioning
confidence: 99%