👁️ The 4AT has a comparable body of diagnostic test accuracy data to any other #delirium detection tool. 📗 Meta-analysis: 17 studies; 3702 observations 🔸 Sens = 88% 🔸 Spec = 88% 🔗 academic.oup.com/ageing/advance…

Improving Understanding - The National Hip Fracture Database Report on 2021 (NHFD 2022 annual report) nhfd.co.uk/20/hipfracture…

📢 important new paper in Age_and_Ageing 📢 “Consensus on the use of intravenous zoledronate after hip fracture” Celia Gregson @kassimjavaid @antonyjohanssen @profsahota doi.org/10.1093/ageing… Fragility Fracture Network (FFN)

A take away from this #BGSConf After the IV Zol talk yesterday and Dexa Interpretation today. I will be cracking on with more bone health tx before a DEXA 🦴

Oral nutritional supplementation HALVES the risk of infection, pressure sores, all complications and reduces length of hospital stay after hip fracture. No brainer! #HipFracture #Nutrition #Supplements #Surgery #BJJ Andrew D Duckworth Edinburgh Orthopaedics ow.ly/j4yI50Q7mY1

Perioperative interventions to improve early mobilisation and physical function after hip fracture academic.oup.com/ageing/article…

🚨New guidance - get ready to change from AMT to 4AT in 2024🚨 In April 2024, BPT will change to require patients to be assessed with a 4A test (4AT) both on admission and post-operatively. From January, the NHFD dataset will accept either AMT or 4AT in anticipation of this 1/2

2/2 and from April 2024 the AMT option will be removed from the dataset. We hope to release the 2024 dataset soon, keep an eye out here and on the NHFD website. Find out more by watching our webinar youtu.be/owDrbf1ie8k and get in touch with any questions: [email protected]

A really cool way of accessing all the Cochrane reviews on hip fracture: bonejointhealth.ac.uk/cochrane-syste…

Having seen 15,000 post-op. hip#s I’ve stopped caring what approach was used. Individual anaesthetists could spend a whole career randomising patients and still be none the wiser than REGAIN: nejm.org/doi/suppl/10.1… … or we could start seeking other improvement topics

This ‘Call to action’ in offering IV Zoledronate to people while in hospital after hip fracture doi.org/10.1093/ageing… is discussed in this video youtu.be/ZFKF5MdL8uA?si… to improve prevention of future fractures Celia Gregson Prof Opinder Sahota Kassim Javaid Alasdair MacLullich Fragility Fracture Network (FFN)

The Positive Effect of the Integrated Orthogeriatric Care Model on Quality Indicators Pre- and Post-operatively for Hip Fracture Patients bmjopenquality.bmj.com/content/12/Sup…