Hip Fracture Management—We need to do better by  Geoffrey Horne   - published in BJDonline, 6/26/2007

Hip Fracture Management—We need to do better. Editorial by Geoffrey Horne. A new article published in the New Zealand Medical Journal serves to emphasise the increasing problem of hip fractures in the already stretched public healthcare system (Thwaites et al. Older patients with hip fractures: evaluation of a long-term specialist orthopaedic medicine service in their outcomes; http://www.nzma.org.nz/journal/120-1254/2535) Here Geoffrey Horne’s editorial points to the significance of the problem and calls for physicians, under the banner of the Bone and Joint Decade, to step up the crusade.

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