Improving outcome for patients after osteoporotic femoral fracture
- Conditions
- OsteoporosisMusculoskeletal Diseases
- Registration Number
- ISRCTN33363553
- Lead Sponsor
- niversity of Edinburgh (UK)
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 450
Patients with acute, traumatic trochanteric or supracondylar femoral fractures who are 55 or older presenting with fragility fractures.
1. Patients with open fractures, pathological fractures, who have a 'floating knee', associated patellar fracture or simultaneous bilateral fracture.
2. Patients with known metabolic bone disease, rheumatoid arthritis and patients with chronic renal failure.
3. Patients on steroids, strontium, bisphosphonates and parathyroid hormone.
4. Patients with dementia.
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method The difference between the baseline Johanson Hip Rating Questionnaire (HRQ) score and the HRQ score at six weeks. A target difference of seven to ten points will be considered significant.
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method Pain and function.