Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Establishing expert consensus on essential perioperative management components for hip fracture patients aged over 75: a national modified Delphi study
Authors' conclusion
The bundle of care for HF elaborated in this study provides perioperative teams with clear, actionable objectives to improve care quality and equity. Its impact on patient outcomes warrants further evaluation.
Study context
- Population
- Multidisciplinary experts representative of major French academic societies, rating perioperative care practices for hip fracture (hip fractures (HF)) in patients over 75anesthesiologists 11 · geriatricians 9 · orthopedic surgeons 6 · hospital pharmacists 4
- Participants
- 30 multidisciplinary experts
- Outcome
- Agreement consensus (≥70% rating ranging from 7 to 9 on a 9-point Likert scale)
Methodological detailstwo-round
- Two-round
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
Items reaching agreement consensus
29 out of 34
Further findings
Shortlist of items with over 90% consensus
- Items in shortlist
- 12
- Organizational items
- 2
- Perioperative items
- 7
- Surgical items
- 3
Expert panel composition
- Anesthesiologists
- 11 (36.7%)
- Geriatricians
- 9 (30%)
- Orthopedic surgeons
- 6 (20%)
- Hospital pharmacists
- 4 (13.3%)
Original publication
Establishing expert consensus on essential perioperative management components for hip fracture patients aged over 75: a national modified Delphi study. Anaesth Crit Care Pain Med. Published 13 October 2026. doi:10.
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