TY - BOOK
T1 - Rehabilitation of patients aged 65 and over after total hip replacement.
T2 - Based on patients´health status.
AU - Hørdam, Britta
N1 - Ph:d-thesis: rehabilitation, elderly patients, nursing intervention, a crosssectional study, a randomised clinical trial, a measurement of healthrelated quality of li
PY - 2008/1
Y1 - 2008/1
N2 - The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate improvement in health status of patients aged 65 and over after total hip replacement (THR) as a result of nursing rehabilitation. The projects conssits of three studies, first a description of patients´health status after THR, followed by a randomised clinical trial by using telephone interviews and counseling postoperatively, and testing improvement in patients´health status after THR. The last study involved testing the effect of nursing intervention by providing a measurement of patients´healthrelated quality of life.
AB - The overall aim of this thesis was to investigate improvement in health status of patients aged 65 and over after total hip replacement (THR) as a result of nursing rehabilitation. The projects conssits of three studies, first a description of patients´health status after THR, followed by a randomised clinical trial by using telephone interviews and counseling postoperatively, and testing improvement in patients´health status after THR. The last study involved testing the effect of nursing intervention by providing a measurement of patients´healthrelated quality of life.
KW - chronically ill
M3 - PhD
BT - Rehabilitation of patients aged 65 and over after total hip replacement.
PB - Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Aarhus
CY - University of Aarhus, Denmark
ER -