Association of hospital resource use with comorbidity status and patient age among hip fracture patients in Japan

Older adult’s recovery from hip fracture: A literature review

“…For example, the Older People's Health Chart Book Falls are often a precursor to hip fracture Kannus et al, 1996;Lappe, 1998;Norton et al, 1995;Sanders et al, 1999a). Many older adults have preexisting conditions such as osteoporosis, although these people live successfully in the community if they are well managed Ishizaki et al, 2004;Koval et al, 1996). However, co-existing conditions may require increased resources and an increase hospital stay.…”

“…However, co-existing conditions may require increased resources and an increase hospital stay. Examination of comorbidities and their effect on recovery from hip fracture agree that the complex interplay of hip fracture treatments and co-existing conditions must be managed carefully, if the impact on recovery outcomes and the economic impacts on the health sector are to be minimised (Egol et al, 1997;Ishizaki et al, 2004;Khasraghi et al, 2003;Koot et al, 2000;Young et al, 1997).…”

“…Improving recovery for older adults is important, as the hip fracture rates increase in an ageing population Ishizaki et al, 2004;Johnell and Kanis, 2004;Khasraghi et al, 2003;Stephenson et al, 2003). Improved anaesthetics, surgical techniques, and post-operative management, and functional rehabilitation programmes have enhanced recovery outcomes.…”

Association between patient age and hospitalization resource use in a teaching hospital in Japan

“…In 1995, one of the authors (YI) developed an administrative database to collect data from more than 10 privately owned tertiary teaching hospitals in Japan. Using the database, we have examined variations in resource use between the participating hospitals [10][11][12][13][14]. In this study, we utilized the administrative database to examine the relationship between patient age and cumulative total charges, diagnostic examination charges, and drugs charges during a 1-year period at one Japanese teaching hospital.…”

Factors influencing the costs of emergency medical admissions to an Irish teaching hospital

“…Oth ers have com pared dif fer ences be tween physicians' sever i ty-ad just ed LOS and the way in which coun selling and mon i tor ing may re duce in di vid u al physi cians' LOS [10]. More over, the pres ence of co-mor bid i ty is sig nif i cant ly as so ci at ed with lon ger LOS and hos pi tal costs [14,17,21].…”