TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - Risk factors for in-hospital complications of fall-related fractures among older Chinese: a retrospective study
JO  - BioMed research international
A1  - Pi, Hong-Ying
A1  - Gao, Yuan
A1  - Wang, Jing
A1  - Hu, Meng-Meng
A1  - Nie, Dan
A1  - Peng, Pei-Pei
SP  - 8612143
EP  - 8612143
VL  - 2016
IS  - 
N2  - PURPOSE. The aim of this study was to investigate the risk factors and the efficacy of the preventive measurements for the in-hospital complications of fall-related fractures. <br><br>METHODS. The data on older Chinese patients with fall-related fractures were collected, including information on the patients, diseases, and preventive measurements. The potential risk factors for the in-hospital complications included health status on admission, comorbidity, fractures, preventive measures of the complications, and drugs use for the comorbidity. After univariate analyses, multivariate logistic regression analyses were applied to investigate the impact of the potential risk factors on the number of the complications and each individual complication, respectively, and the efficacy of the preventive measurements. <br><br>RESULTS. A total of 525 male and 1367 female were included in this study. After univariate analyses, multiple logistic regression showed that dementia, pneumonia, antidepressant, postural hypotension, and cerebral infarction could increase the incidence and number of comorbidities. Meanwhile, dementia has shown the strongest association with each individual complication. <br><br>CONCLUSIONS. Different combinations of comorbidity, medication use, and preventive measurements were related to the in-hospital complications of fall-related fractures. Dementia emerged as the most important risk factor for these complications, while most of the preventive measurements could not reduce their incidences.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 2314-6133
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/8612143
ID  - ref1
ER  -