title: [Emergency room consultation policy prevents surgery delay in elderly patients with hip fractures].
abstract: Clinical guidelines for the management of hip fractures strongly emphasize the critical role of early surgery as a major factor affecting better health outcomes. Shortening the time from admission to pre-operative consultation by bringing the consultants to the emergency room, before patient admission to the orthopedic ward, is am efficient cost effective hospital policy that enables adherence to guideline recommendations. Early pre-operative specialist consultation is an efficient cost effective policy for preventing delay of surgery following hip fracture in the elderly.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Soroka university Medical Center, Beer Sheva.
authors.forename: Yoav
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shoham
authors.forename: Ronit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Peled
authors.forename: Dan
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Atar
authors.forename: Yitzhak
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Jaqim
authors.forename: Pnina
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Shcleffer
authors.forename: Haim
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Reuveni
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000592:standards*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D007557:Israel; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000592:standards*