Quality of Life After a Stable Trochanteric Fracture-A Prospective Cohort Study on 148 Patients

Abstract

Besides the expected mortality rate, the results of the study confirm a low reoperation rate and a good outcome regarding pain at the hip and only limited deterioration in HRQoL after a stable trochanteric fracture. However, a considerable number of the patients experienced deterioration in their walking ability and ADL function. The data on HRQoL obtained in this study can be used in future healthcare evaluations and to calculate quality-adjusted life years.

EuroQol (EQ-5D) health utility scores for patients with migraine

“…For instance, patients have reported a decrease in health utility of 0.12-0.20 at 4 months following hip fracture when compared to pre-fracture [19,20], and comorbidity-adjusted utility decrements of 0.13 and 0.14 have been estimated, respectively, for rheumatoid arthritis and hand osteoarthritis [21]. However, it is generally difficult to identify studies from the literature, describing within-event disutilities for painful episodic conditions, truly akin to the present study for migraine.…”

Complications and patient-reported outcome after hip fracture. A consecutive annual cohort study of 664 patients

“…We saw little use of the EQ-5D-instrument at one year, without any pre-fracture data to compare with. Obtaining prefracture EQ-5D result by recall technique has been done in several studies [21][22][23] but may be obscured by cognitive limitations in the elderly, often aggravated by pain, medication and surgery during the period when the interview would be performed. Comparing EQ-5D to age-matched tariffs may also be misleading, as hip fracture patients usually are frailer than their peers.…”

Lebensqualität und Arbeitsfähigkeit nach operativer Behandlung von Tibiakopffrakturen

“…Grundsätz-lich ist die Lebensqualität nach operativer Frakturversorgung an Extremitäten und Stamm zu Anfang deutlich herabgesetzt [13,20,24,26,40,50], Tibiakopf-und Tibiaschaftfrakturen eingeschlossen [4,21,39]. Innerhalb von 2 Jahren kommt es zu einer Verbesserung [7,8,13,16,28,40], wobei jedoch Einschränkungen bei 58% der Patienten verbleiben [35] und auch noch 4 Jahre nach Frakturversorgung nachzuweisen sind [18]. Die genannten Studien verwendeten als Messinstrument der Lebensqualität entweder den SF-36 [9] oder den EQ-5D ("Euro Quality of life 5D").…”