Anesthesia technique, mortality, and length of stay after hip fracture surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

More than 300,000 hip fractures occur each year in the United States. Recent practice guidelines have advocated greater use of regional anesthesia for hip fracture surgery.

Objective

To test the association of regional (ie, spinal or epidural) anesthesia vs general anesthesia with 30-day mortality and hospital length of stay after hip fracture.

Design, setting, and patients

We conducted a matched retrospective cohort study involving patients 50 years or older who were undergoing surgery for hip fracture at general acute care hospitals in New York State between July 1, 2004, and December 31, 2011. Our main analysis was a near-far instrumental variable match that paired patients who lived at different distances from hospitals that specialized in regional or g

SUBMITTER: Neuman MD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4344128 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature