Why the study?
Although surgery improves long-term survival in older adults with hip fracture, in-hospital mortality remains an undesirable risk that needs identifiable prognostic factors.
What factors predict in-hospital mortality in older adults following hip fracture surgery?
Population
841 older adults who received hip fracture surgery at a single medical centre
Comparison
17 patients who died in hospital vs 51 age-matched surviving controls
Design
Single-centre case-control study
Authors
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May inform preoperative risk assessment after hip fracture surgery; leaves open need for prospective validation.
What factors predict in-hospital mortality in older adults following hip fracture surgery?
eGFR and malignant cancer history are significant predictors of in-hospital mortality in older adults undergoing hip fracture surgery.
Chiang et al. (2021) studied this question.
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