Does delaying surgery increase thirty-day mortality in patients with hip fracture?
Delaying hip fracture surgery beyond four days or due to medical comorbidities significantly increases the risk of thirty-day mortality.
The thirty-day mortality following surgery for a hip fracture was 9%. Patients with medical comorbidities that delayed surgery had 2.5 times the risk of death within thirty days after the surgery compared with patients without comorbidities that delayed surgery. Mortality was not increased when the surgery was delayed up to four days for patients who were otherwise fit for hip fracture surgery. However, a delay of more than four days significantly increased mortality.
Moran et al. (Tue,) studied this question.
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