Why the study?
Hip fracture in older patients carries a high six-month mortality rate, and the respective effects of baseline characteristics, co-existing acute illnesses, perioperative factors, and postoperative complications on this mortality are unclear.
Baseline characteristics explain less than two-thirds of six-month mortality after hip fracture, suggesting that optimizing perioperative care and reducing postoperative complications could reduce mortality by up to one quarter.
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Optimizing perioperative care may lower hip fracture mortality; this cohort study leaves open whether targeted interventions improve outcomes.
Zerah et al. (2020) studied this question.
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