Hip fracture patients fare best during recovery in high-occupancy nursing homes with higher level physician staffing

Hip fractures are a common and disabling condition that occurs more than 300,000 times each year in the United States in those 65 and older — 1.6 million times worldwide. A new study from Penn Medicine, which compared outcome variations in acute and post-acute care facilities, suggests that for older adults hospitalized with hip fracture, the quality of the post-acute care they receive has a greater impact on long-term recovery than the care they received at the hospital.
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