How much do combined affective and cognitive impairments worsen rehabilitation outcomes after hip fracture?
BMC Geriatrics Mar 28, 2018
Seematter-Bagnoud L, et al. - In older patients admitted to rehabilitation after a hip fracture, the association between isolated and combined affective and cognitive impairments with functional outcomes and discharge destination was investigated. In this work, affective and cognitive impairments showed both independent, and synergistic negative association with functional outcome and discharge destination in these patients. However, patients with combined affective and cognitive impairments still achieved significant functional improvement, even though its magnitude was reduced.
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