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ArticleAmerican journal of epidemiology2023

The Impact of Hip Fracture on Geriatric Care and Mortality Among Older Swedes: Mapping Care Trajectories and Their Determinants.

Anna C Meyer, Marcus Ebeling, Sven Drefahl, Margareta Hedström, Stina Ek, Glenn Sandström, Karin Modig

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Article in American journal of epidemiology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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15citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

15 citing papers in PubMed, 20 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Factors associated with early follow-up attendance after geriatric hip fracture surgery.European journal of orthopaedic surgery & traumatology : orthopedie traumatologie · 2026
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  8. Effects of Progressive Resistance Training After Hip Fracture: A Systematic Review.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2025
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  9. Sentinel fracture: the necessity of improved post-fracture care.Wiener medizinische Wochenschrift (1946) · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Anna C Meyer
Marcus Ebeling
Sven Drefahl
Margareta Hedström
Stina Ek
Glenn Sandström
Karin Modig
Karolinska Institutet · SEStockholm University · SEUmeå University · SE

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In this study, we examined the impact of hip fractures on trajectories of home care, nursing home residence, and mortality among individuals aged 65 years or more and explored the impacts of living arrangements, cohabitation, frailty, and socioeconomic position on these trajectories. Based on a linkage of nationwide Swedish population registers, our study included 20,573 individuals with first hip fracture in 2014-2015. Care trajectories during the 2 years following the fracture were visualized and compared with those of 2 hip-fracture-free control groups drawn from the general population: age- and sex-matched controls and health-matched controls identified through propensity score matching. Multistate modeling was employed to identify sociodemographic and health-related factors associated with care trajectories among hip fracture patients. We found that hip fracture patients already had worse health than the general population before their fracture. However, when controlling for prefracture health, hip fractures still had a considerable impact on use of elder-care services and mortality. Comparisons with the health-matched controls suggest that hip fractures have an immediate, yet short-term, impact on care trajectories. Long-term care needs are largely attributable to poorer health profiles independent of the fracture itself. This emphasizes the importance of adequate comparison groups when examining the consequences of diseases which are often accompanied by other underlying health problems.

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Hip FracturesAgedHumansSwedenagingelder carehip fracturehome carenursing homesosteoporosisregistersSweden

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PMID35968686
PMCPMC9825727
OpenAlexW4291514176

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