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01-05-2014 | Orthopaedic Surgery

Risk factors for complications and in-hospital mortality following hip fractures: a study using the National Trauma Data Bank

Authors: Philip J. Belmont Jr., E’Stephan J. Garcia, David Romano, Julia O. Bader, Kenneth J. Nelson, Andrew J. Schoenfeld

Published in: Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery | Issue 5/2014

Abstract

Study design

Retrospective review of prospectively collected data.

Objective

To describe the impact of patient demographics, injury-specific factors, and medical co-morbidities on outcomes after hip fracture using the National Sample Program (NSP) of the National Trauma Data Bank (NTDB).

Methods

The 2008 NSP-NTDB was queried to identify patients sustaining hip fractures. Patient demographics, co-morbidities, injury-specific factors, and outcomes (including mortality and complications) were recorded and a national estimate model was developed. Unadjusted differences for risk factors were evaluated using t test/Wald Chi square analyses. Weighted logistic regression and sensitivity analyses were performed to control for all factors in the model.

Results

The weighted sample contained 44,419 incidents of hip fracture. The average age was 72.7. Sixty-two percent of the population was female and 80 % was white. The mortality rate was 4.5 % and 12.5 % sustained at least one complication. Seventeen percent of patients who sustained at least one complication died. Dialysis, presenting in shock, cardiac disease, male sex, and ISS were significant predictors of mortality, while dialysis, obesity, cardiac disease, diabetes, and a procedure delay of ≥2 days influenced complications. The major potential modifiable risk factor appears to be time to procedure, which had a significant impact on complications.

Conclusions

This is the first study to postulate predictors of morbidity and mortality following hip fracture in a US national model. While many co-morbidities appear to be influential in predicting outcome, some of the more significant factors include the presence of shock, dialysis, obesity, and time to surgery.

Level of evidence

Prognostic study, Level II.

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Title: Risk factors for complications and in-hospital mortality following hip fractures: a study using the National Trauma Data Bank
Authors: Philip J. Belmont Jr.
E’Stephan J. Garcia
David Romano
Julia O. Bader
Kenneth J. Nelson
Andrew J. Schoenfeld
Publication date: 01-05-2014
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Published in: Archives of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery / Issue 5/2014
Print ISSN: 0936-8051
Electronic ISSN: 1434-3916
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00402-014-1959-y

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Risk factors for complications and in-hospital mortality following hip fractures: a study using the National Trauma Data Bank

Abstract

Study design

Objective

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Level of evidence

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Study design

Objective

Methods

Results

Conclusions

Level of evidence

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