• I S L Liem, C Kammerlander, N Suhm, S L Kates, and M Blauth.
• Department of Trauma Surgery and Sports Medicine, Tyrolean Geriatric Fracture Center, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria.
• Arch Orthop Trauma Surg. 2014 Feb 1; 134 (2): 181-7.

IntroductionA variety of multidisciplinary treatment models have been described to improve outcome after osteoporotic hip fractures. There is a tendency toward better outcomes after implementation of the most sophisticated model with a shared leadership for orthopedic surgeons and geriatricians; the Geriatric Fracture Center. The purpose of this review is to evaluate the use of outcome parameters in published literature on the Geriatric Fracture Center evaluation studies.Materials And MethodsA literature search was performed using Medline and the Cochrane Library to identify Geriatric Fracture Center evaluation studies. The outcome parameters used in the included studies were evaluated.ResultsA total of 16 outcome parameters were used in 11 studies to evaluate patient outcome in 8 different Geriatric Fracture Centers. Two of these outcome parameters are patient-reported outcome measures and 14 outcome parameters were objective measures.ConclusionIn-hospital mortality, length of stay, time to surgery, place of residence and complication rate are the most frequently used outcome parameters. The patient-reported outcomes included activities of daily living and mobility scores. There is a need for generally agreed upon outcome measures to facilitate comparison of different care models.

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