Damsgaard Else Marie, Borris Lars, Duus Benn, van der Mark Susanne
Geriatrisk Afdeling G, Aarhus Universitetshospital, P.P. Ørumsgade 11, 8000 Aarhus C.
Ugeskr Laeger. 2013 Oct 7;175(41):2418-20.
Close collaboration between geriatricians and orthopaedic surgeons on elderly patients with hip fractures reduces mortality, the number of complications, and the length of hospital stay and increases the functional abilities of the patients. In some Danish hospitals the two groups of doctors work closely together, in others there are few or no geriatricians.