Does a multidisciplinary team-based approach improve clinical and cost-related outcomes in geriatric patients with hip fracture?
A multidisciplinary team-based approach in geriatric hip fracture care trends toward improved clinical outcomes, decreased mortality, and lower costs.
Although a heterogeneous group of studies, the aggregate data from several studies using an orthogeriatrics care model or a geriatrics-led care model trend toward improvements across several clinical and cost-related outcome measures: decreased time to surgery, shorter length of stay, improved postoperative clinical outcomes, decreased mortality, and lower cost.
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