Orthopedics & Traumatology
Online ISSN : 1349-4333
Print ISSN : 0037-1033
ISSN-L : 0037-1033
Length of Hospital Stay and Final Discharge Destination of Hip Fracture Patients with Relation to Surgical Methods and Regional Liaison Pathway
Yasuo Noguchi, Shunichi Rikimaru, Shunsuke Hotokezaka, Takao Mae, Kosuke Sasaki, Takahiro Iguchi, Makoto Shiraki, Satoshi Nagano, Masahiro Izumi, Yusuke Kubo
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Keywords: regional liaison pathway, hip fracture, hospital stay
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2011 Volume 60 Issue 3 Pages 495-501

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Abstract
In this study, we analyzed length of stay (LOS) in our acute stage hospital and other hospitals for continuing rehabilitation and final discharge destination (home, nursing institution, death, or the third hospital) of 341 hip fracture patients who received operative treatment from April 2007 to March 2010. The average LOS in our hospital and other rehabilitation hospitals were 28.4 and 79.9 days, respectively. The average LOS of patients with regional liaison pathway (RLP) was shorter than that of patients without the RLP. One hundred and ninety two out of 243 patients (79.0%) who lived at home before hip fracture were eventually able to return home. The RLP was not correlated with the percentage of patients who returned home.
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© 2011 West-Japanese Society of Orthopedics & Traumatology
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