
Louise HansenAalborg University · Danish Center for Healtcare Improvement
Louise Hansen
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September 2007 - July 2012
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Rationale
Comorbidities are common in fracture patients, but the interaction between fracture and comorbidities remains unclear. This study aimed to define specific multimorbidity clusters in older adults and quantify the association between the multimorbidity clusters and fracture risk.
Methods
This nationwide cohort study includes 1.7 million ad...
Background:
Fragility fracture is associated with an increased risk of mortality, but mortality is not part of doctor-patient communication. Here, we introduce a new concept called 'Skeletal Age' as the age of an individual's skeleton resulting from a fragility fracture to convey the combined risk of fracture and fracture-associated mortality for...
Fragility fracture is associated with an increased risk of mortality, but mortality is not part of doctor-patient communication. Here, we introduce a new concept called ‘Skeletal Age’ as the age of an individual’s skeleton resulting from a fragility fracture to convey the combined risk of fracture and fracture-associated mortality for an individual...
Importance:
Limited knowledge about interactions among health disorders impedes optimal patient care. Because comorbidities are common among patients 50 years and older with fractures, these fractures provide a useful setting for studying interactions among disorders.
Objective:
To define multimorbidity clusters at the time of fracture and quant...
Objectives: to propose a novel "Skeletal Age" metric as the age of an individual's skeleton resulting from a fragility fracture to convey the combined risk of fracture and fracture-associated mortality for an individual with specific risk profile.
Design: a retrospective population-based cohort study.
Setting: hospital records from the Danish Natio...
There is increasing evidence that all proximal and not just hip fractures are associated with increased mortality risk. However, the cause of this increased mortality is unknown. We sought to determine the post-fracture trajectories of subsequent hospital admissions and mortality to develop an understanding of why patients with non-hip fractures di...
Purpose:
Medical treatment of osteoporosis should preferably be both effective and have minimal side effects. The aim of the present study was to examine long-term benefits and risks of parathyroid hormone (PTH) treatment in compliant patients.
Methods:
This is a nationwide retrospective cohort study based on national registers in which we ident...
Purpose/ Introduction: we explored whether the risk of hip, humerus and wrist fracture was associated with markers of inequality using data from Danish health registries.
Methods: all patients 50 years or older with a primary hip (ICD10: S720, S721, S722, and S729) humerus (ICD10: S422, S423, S424, S425, S426, and S427) or wrist (ICD10: S52) frac...
Context:
Little is known about long-term excess mortality following fragility non-hip fractures.
Objective:
The study aimed to determine which fracture was associated with excess mortality, and for how long the post-fracture excess mortality persisted.
Design, setting, and patients:
This nationwide, registry-based follow-up study included all...
The benefits of pharmaceutical treatment for osteoporosis may be limited for a number of patients, as they continue to experience fractures. Alternative treatments may be considered for subjects whom remain at high risk for future fractures.
Introduction
Previous studies have investigated the effects of good adherence to anti-osteoporosis medicatio...
In the present study, we used national health care databases to estimate fracture incidence rates (IRs) and compared these IRs based on imputed data. We showed that imputation could lead to both over- and underestimation of IRs, and future research should therefore focus on how to improve those imputations.
Introduction
Osteoporosis is a major publ...
Once a fragility fracture has occurred after the age of 50 years, 41-85% of patients will experience another fracture. Patients who present at hospitals with a fragility fracture would benefit from introduction of fracture prevention programmes, as these programmes have been shown to reduce the number of subsequent fractures, reduce mortality, and...
Fractures after the age of 50 are frequently observed in Denmark, and many of these may be osteoporotic. This study examined the incidence of all and subsequent fractures in a 10-year period from 2001 to 2011. The incidence of subsequent fractures was high, especially following hip fracture.
Introduction:
The purpose of this study is to examine p...
This is a cost-of-illness study of osteoporotic fractures in Denmark estimating the incremental societal cost associated with osteoporotic fractures, with both direct cost and productivity cost. This study includes cost regarding hospitals, general practices, the patients, the municipalities and regions. The total cost of osteoporotic fractures in...
More than 100,000 patients each year in Denmark experience nosocomial infections, erroneous medication, or pressure ulcers while hospitalized. The Danish Safer Hospital Program includes 12 bundles for improving patient safety through the introduction and maintenance of evidence-based routine treatment or standard procedures.
To determine cost-effec...