Empower the patient: Hip fracture as outpatient care
Format
R&D project
Funding
Stockholm County Council
Time table
2005-
Description
This is a R&D project funded by the Stockholm County Council that started in 2005. The project is a collaboration between Professor Leif Ryd (Principal Investigator) at the Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge, and researchers at CRB.
Aims
Within the health-care system, patients are often seen as helpless and in need of caretaking by healthcare professionals. This view may many times be disabling for the health-care process, extending rehabilitation, resulting in great costs both to the patient and to the health-care sector. It would clearly be beneficial if the health-care process could be made more efficient, with more expedient care, a shorter rehabilitation process involving more outpatient care and at the same time could be tailored more specifically to the individual patient’s needs and resources. Empowering patients to take charge of their own health and rehabilitation process is an important step in actualizing the overall goal of a more efficient health-care process.
Hip fracture patients constitute a large and resource-consuming group which could benefit from an increasing extent of outpatient care. A research project has been started, aimed at providing a new treatment framework by combining vertebroplasty, as an effective operative technique for hip fractures, with the patients’ personal involvement and control of the rehabilitation process.
Addressing and changing the views and attitudes commonly held within the health-care system was determined to be essential in order for patient empowerment to be feasible. The first phase of the project, which is currently underway, therefore involves an evidence-based program, focused on educating health-care providers in a different way of interacting with patients, highlighting individual patient strengths and resources. After completion of this program, the subsequent phase of the project, involving the development of an individualized treatment and care process, will ensue. This process is designed to be sensitive to the multiplicity of personal values at stake and with self-control of the patient as the fundamental aim. The process starts from the moment of emergency admission of the patient to the clinic and ends when the end point in terms of quality of life during the post-operative rehabilitation phase has been attained.
Contact and more information
- Mats G. Hansson, Professor of Biomedical Ethics
Collaborators
Leif Ryd (Principal Investigator)
Karolinska University Hospital, Huddinge
Mats G. Hansson, Professor of Biomedical Ethics
E-mail: mats.hansson@crb.uu.se
Lilianne Eninger, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer,
Stockholm University
E-mail: lilianne.eninger@psychology.su.se
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