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Timely surgery for hip fracture within 24 hours improves quality of life and reduces costs, while adding immediate inpatient rehabilitation provides additional quality-adjusted life-years at a higher cost. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.INCREMENTAL. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.SUPPORTS_CONSENSUS.

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Evaluate the 5-year cost-effectiveness of early surgery within 24 hours, immediate inpatient rehabilitation, or combined timely care for older hip fracture patients.

September 8, 2026Open Access

Cost-Effectiveness of Timely Surgery and Timely Inpatient Rehabilitation for the Management of Hip Fracture.

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ZHZheng HuMcMaster University LMLawrence Mbuagbaw GFGerhard FuschMcMaster University

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Markov modeling demonstrates that early surgery reduces costs and improves quality of life in older hip fracture patients, indicating immediate operative repair provides dominant economic value.

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Evaluate the 5-year cost-effectiveness of early surgery within 24 hours, immediate inpatient rehabilitation, or combined timely care for older hip fracture patients.
Constructed a 5-year Markov state transition model from a public payer perspective using linked administrative health data from Ontario, Canada.
Derived health utility weights from an international prospective observational study using EuroQoL 5-Dimension (EQ-5D) scores.
Conducted base-case and probabilistic sensitivity analyses using 5,000 Monte Carlo simulations across willingness-to-pay thresholds ranging from $0 to $300,000 CAD.
Timely surgery alone was an absolute advantage (dominant) strategy, reducing mean costs by $2,387 CAD while generating a gain of 0.06 QALYs.
Compared with neither timely intervention, the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was $124,162 per QALY for timely rehabilitation alone and $83,714 per QALY for combined timely surgery and rehabilitation.
Timely surgery alone showed the highest probability of cost-effectiveness up to a willingness-to-pay threshold of $128,000 per QALY, above which the combined strategy became favored.

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Hu et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a9fd75858e84d0ff5b45dfb https://doi.org/10.2106/jbjs.oa.26.00200

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Markov modeling demonstrates that early surgery reduces costs and improves quality of life in older hip fracture patients, indicating immediate operative repair provides dominant economic value.

Cost-Effectiveness of Timely Surgery and Timely Inpatient Rehabilitation for the Management of Hip Fracture.

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Cost-Effectiveness of Timely Surgery and Timely Inpatient Rehabilitation for the Management of Hip Fracture.

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