Prevention of hip fractures in older adults residing in long-term care facilities with a hip airbag: a retrospective pilot study

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• who: Banne Nemeth from the Hip protectors are one such intervention, and have been around since the late, sTraditionally, this are either hard or soft protectors worn in specially designed underwear over the trochanter major region, and meant to shift the energy of the fall away from the trochanter major, distally along the shaft of the femur. The latest Cochrane review by Santesso et_al showed that among patients in an institutional setting a small reduction in hip fractures might be achieved with application of hip protectors (risk ratio (RR), .82, % confidence interval (CI)to, .00), however the . . .
  

   

  

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