Frequency, duration, and type of physiotherapy in the week after hip fracture surgery: analysis of implications for discharge home, readmission, survival, and recovery of mobility

Accepted/In Press date: 24 March 2023

e-pub ahead of print date: 29 March 2023

Published date: September 2023

Additional Information: Funding Information: We are grateful to NHS Digital, NHS Wales Informatics Service, and the Royal College of Physician's Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit programme for providing the data used in this study. The views expressed in this publication are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect those of the NHS or the Department of Health and Social Care. This publication is based on data collected by or on behalf of Healthcare Quality Improvement Partnership, who have no responsibility or liability for the accuracy, currency, reliability and/or correctness of this publication. The study did not require NHS Research Ethics Committee approval as it involves secondary analysis of linked pseudo-anonymised data. The authors have received grants from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust related to this work (Grant No: PRF/18/A24). The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust funding provides salary support for AG, and partial salary support for SA. KS also received funding from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit and UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for hip fracture health services research. KS is the Chair and AJ and CG are members of the Scientific and Publications Committee of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme which managed the National Hip Fracture Database audit at the Royal College of Physicians. FCM was the funded (2012–2018) board chair and AJ is funded clinical lead of the Falls and Fragility Fracture programme. SA is funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London. CS received funding from the National Institutes of Health Research for research not related to the current study. TS received funding from the National Institutes of Health Research for research not related to the current study. CLG receives funding from Versus Arthritis (ref 22086). ES is supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. OA, LB, IDC, BS, RMC, JM and MTK declare no conflicts of interest. Funding Information: The authors have received grants from the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust related to this work (Grant No: PRF/18/A24 ). Funding Information: The Chartered Society of Physiotherapy Charitable Trust funding provides salary support for AG, and partial salary support for SA. KS also received funding from the NIHR Research for Patient Benefit and UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship for hip fracture health services research. KS is the Chair and AJ and CG are members of the Scientific and Publications Committee of the Falls and Fragility Fracture Audit Programme which managed the National Hip Fracture Database audit at the Royal College of Physicians. FCM was the funded (2012–2018) board chair and AJ is funded clinical lead of the Falls and Fragility Fracture programme. SA is funded by the NIHR Biomedical Research Centre based at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, King's College London. CS received funding from the National Institutes of Health Research for research not related to the current study. TS received funding from the National Institutes of Health Research for research not related to the current study. CLG receives funding from Versus Arthritis (ref 22086). ES is supported by the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Wessex. The views expressed are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the National Health Service, the NIHR or the Department of Health and Social Care. OA, LB, IDC, BS, RMC, JM and MTK declare no conflicts of interest. Publisher Copyright: © 2023 The Author(s)

Keywords: Audit, Hip fracture, National Hip Fracture Database, Physiotherapy, Recovery, Rehabilitation

Local EPrints ID: 477302

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/477302

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.physio.2023.03.002

ISSN: 0031-9406

PURE UUID: f7e488a3-d476-4625-b39b-812395197347

ORCID for Euan Sadler: orcid.org/0000-0003-3827-224X

Date deposited: 02 Jun 2023 16:39

Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 03:56