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Rehabilitation schemes for elderly patients with hip fractures have been developed and initiated in accordance with local needs and resources to address this growing clinical challenge.
This article describes the development of rehabilitation services for elderly patients with hip fractures based on local needs and resources.
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Encourages context-specific hip fracture rehab planning; leaves open rigorous evaluation of effectiveness across settings.
This article focuses on the rehabilitation services that have developed as a result of the rising incidence of hip fracture and the clinical challenge that it presents. The background to rehabilitation developments for elderly orthopaedic patients and the way in which different schemes have been initiated in accordance with local needs and resources are described.
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Stewart et al. (1998) studied this question. Rehabilitation schemes for elderly patients with hip fractures have been developed and initiated in accordance with local needs and resources to address this growing clinical challenge.
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