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Table 1 Organization of treatment in Department of Geriatrics (DG) as compared with the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (DOS)

From: Development and delivery of patient treatment in the Trondheim Hip Fracture Trial. A new geriatric in-hospital pathway for elderly patients with hip fracture

 

Experimental group

Control group

Department

Clinic of Internal Medicine,

Clinic of Orthopaedics and Rheumatology

 

Department of Geriatrics (DG)

Department of Orthopaedic Surgery (DOS)

Facilities *

Single bed rooms

Before relocation: single, double or four –bed rooms

After relocation: single bed rooms

Number of beds in the ward

15

19 before / 24 after relocation

Organization of ward

5 beds dedicated for hip fracture patients allocated to one single cluster

Hip fracture patients spread among other patients

Staff working bed-side (number per bed)

Nurses/assistant nurses: 1.67

Nurses/assistant nurses: 1.48

 

Doctors : 0.13

Doctors: 0.11 (0.08 after relocation)

 

Physiotherapists: 0.13

Physiotherapists: 0.09 (0.07 after relocation)

 

Occupational therapists: 0.13

Occupational therapists: 0

  1. Patients were recruited from April 18th 2008 to December 30th 2010.
  2. *DG was located in a new hospital building during the entire study period while DOS was relocated from an old to a new hospital building in September 2009 (as 219 of 398 patients were recruited).