Variation in care for patients presenting with hip fracture in six high-income countries: A cross-sectional cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hip fractures are costly and common in older adults, but there is limited understanding of how treatment patterns and outcomes might differ between countries.

Methods

We performed a retrospective serial cross-sectional cohort study of adults aged ≥66 years hospitalized with hip fracture between 2011 and 2018 in the US, Canada, England, the Netherlands, Taiwan, and Israel using population-representative administrative data. We examined mortality, hip fracture treatment approaches (total hip arthroplasty [THA], hemiarthroplasty [HA], internal fixation [IF], and nonoperative), and health system performance measures, including hospital length of stay (LOS), 30-day readmission rates, and time-to-surgery.

Results

The total number of hip fracture admissions betwee

SUBMITTER: Burrack N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10840946 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature