And only 33% of non-hip-fracture and 60% of hip-fracture patients had received appropriate treatment for osteoporosis.
As a result, smokers at age 70 are 41% more likely to suffer a hip fracture than non-smokers.
Taking Premarin for seven years seems to have increased the risk of stroke and decreased the risk of hip fracture.
Most studies have shown that nearly 60 percent of people who suffer a hip fracture never completely become independent again.
It builds bone density by 5% to 10% in the spine and hip and cuts in half the risk of a debilitating hip fracture.
"The important thing is if a patient needs treatment for osteoporosis, they should get it, because the risk of mortality from a hip fracture is high, " she says.
There were further claims from the families of a man whose ribs were broken while hospital staff tried to lift him and a great-grandmother whose hip fracture went undetected by doctors.
Elderly women who lose that much height that fast have a 21% higher risk of hip fracture, said the study, which examined data from over 3, 000 adults from the Framingham Heart Study.
In a 2003 study, another Dartmouth team, led by the internist Elliott Fisher, examined the treatment received by a million elderly Americans diagnosed with colon or rectal cancer, a hip fracture, or a heart attack.
Professor David Coggon and his team looked at the cases of 914 hip fracture patients and 1196 people, also from the Hartlepool area, who had not suffered from the condition, reports the medical journal The Lancet.
Physicians adhere to recommended care guidelines 23 percent of the time for hip fracture, 25 percent of the time for atrial fibrillation, 39 percent for community-acquired pneumonia, 41 percent for urinary-tract infection and 45 percent for diabetes mellitus.
The research team also found that hip fracture was 2.1 times more likely in children born to mothers taller than 1.6m (5 ft 4 in) than in children whose mothers were shorter than 1.5m (4 ft 11 in).
The fracture was not repaired and Mr Pickering was left with an unstable and painful hip, law firm Irwin Mitchell said.
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