Alberta Health Services Hip Fracture Care Pathway Toolkit |
Provincial clinical pathways developed to guide the care of patients who have had a hip fracture. The toolkit includes order sets, patient education materials and assessment tools. |
BC Guidelines — Frailty Identification |
Guideline addresses the early identification and management of older adults with frailty or vulnerable to frailty. |
Bone & Joint Canada National Hip Fracture Toolkit |
Toolkit provides a systems view of care that addresses the barriers patients experience as they transfer through the health care system. |
Bone Fit™ |
Provides professional training on the most appropriate, safe and effective methods to prescribe and progress exercise for people with osteoporosis. |
Capture the Fracture® |
Global program that provides recognition, resources, training and tools to support Post-Fracture Care Coordination Programs. |
Canadian Frailty Network — Clinical Practice Guidelines for PT Management of Older Adults with Fracture |
Webinars provide information on the implementation of a clinical practice guideline for physical therapy management of older adults with fracture. |
Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) 2.0
CFS Guidance |
Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) designed to summarize the results of a Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment and now commonly used as a triage tool to make important clinical decisions. |
A Competency Framework for Interprofessional Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment
CGA Self-Assessment Tool (Inter-professional) |
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) guides a multidimensional specialized geriatric team approach to care that determines a frail older person’s biomedical, psychosocial, functional, and environmental needs, and initiates an appropriate treatment and follow-up plan. Competency framework describes detailed practice expectations of health professionals participating in the CGA. |
Fragility Fracture Network Clinical Toolkit |
Toolkit supports delivery of best practice care for persons who suffer hip, clinical vertebral or other major fragility fracture in acute care, rehabilitation and secondary prevention. |
JOSPT Physical Therapy Management of Older Adults with Hip Fracture |
Clinical Practice Guidelines linked to the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health from the Academy of Orthopaedic Physical Therapy and the Academy of Geriatric Physical Therapy of the American Physical Therapy Association. |
North East Specialized Geriatric Centre — Baseline Functional Status |
Addresses baseline functional status, how baseline functional status is determined and subsequent determination of restorative potential. |
Ontario Health Quality Hip Fracture Quality Standard |
Quality standard based on evidence and expert consensus. Includes patient reference guide, recommendations for adoption, getting started guide and indicator guide. |
Ontario Osteoporosis Strategy |
Health care provider website related to osteoporosis and fracture prevention. |
Orthogeriatrics: The Management of Older Patients with Fragility Fractures |
Orthogeriatrics open access textbook. |
Osteoporosis Canada — Clinical Practice Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Osteoporosis in Canada |
Reference sheet for health professionals on the 2010 clinical practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of osteoporosis. |
Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario Cognitive Screening Toolkit |
Toolkit to help clinicians better understand cognitive screening tools and select the appropriate tool. |
Provincial Geriatrics Leadership Ontario Family Presence in Older Adult Care |
Statement to support the restoration of family presence and aid the fulfilment of commitments to patient and family-centred care. |
St. Joseph’s Care Group — Pathway to Rehabilitation |
Pathway to rehabilitation following hip fracture. |