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The following handle holds various files of this Leiden University dissertation:
http://hdl.handle.net/1887/80414
Author: Moerman, S.
Stellingen horende bij het proefschrift ‘Predictors of outcome
in hip fracture patients’
1. Posterolateral approach should be avoided in arthroplasty for hip fracture patients since risk for revision is higher. (this thesis)
2. Uncemented hemiarthroplasty for hip fractures should be avoided as it leads to higher rates of periprosthetic fractures, more dislocations and a higher one-year revision rate. (this thesis)
3. Dutch orthopedic surgeons are quite resistant to change; only 43% of the total hip prostheses in hip fracture patients are cemented, whilst evidence is proving higher complication rates for uncemented hip stems. (this thesis) 4. Prophylactic treatment with haloperidol does not reduce the incidence of delirium in high-risk patients. (this thesis)
5. Risk for delirium should be measured early after hospital admittance in every hip fracture patient. The Risk for Delirium score is a validated score, which is quick and easy to use. (this thesis)
6. A hip fracture is a traumatic life event. Both health related quality of life (HRQoL) and activities of daily living (ADL) of patients do not reach pre-fracture levels a year after the trauma. (this thesis)
7. Healthier patients have a larger decline in physical HRQoL (this thesis) 8. External validation studies of prognostic outcome scores are as important as developing new scores. (van Meenen, JAGS, 2014)
9. The choice of an implant and surgical technique resembles an orthopedic cruise between Scylla and Charybdis; avoiding one complication leads to a higher risk of another. (Leonardson, Acta Orthopeadica, 2012)
10. We come into the world under the brim of the pelvis and go out through the neck of the femur. (Sir Reginald Watson Jones, 1902 - 1971)
11. Do nothing, say nothing and write nothing and you’ll never be criticized. (naar John North Willys, Elbert Hubbard’s Selected Writings part 2, 1922) 12. Bij schaatsen over dun ijs is veiligheid afhankelijk van snelheid. (naar Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays, 1844)
13. Niet iedereen kan een held zijn, er moeten ook mensen gered. De kunst is dansen op de gulden middenweg. (naar Thomas Acda, slaap zacht Elisabeth, 1998)
