Effects of Strategy Changes in the Treatment of Femoral Neck Fractures During a 17-Year Period

Patients with fresh femoral neck fractures treated at a university hospital in Sweden between 1966 and 1982

Strategy changes including immediate postoperative weight-bearing, a home rehabilitation program in collaboration with primary care, and alteration of treatment policy from primary hemiarthroplasty to a flanged nail and finally to hook pins

Historical practice (earlier years of the 17-year period)

Hospitalization time and return rate home at discharge