Incidence and mortality of hip fractures in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Context

Understanding the incidence and subsequent mortality following hip fracture is essential to measuring population health and the value of improvements in health care.

Objective

To examine trends in hip fracture incidence and resulting mortality over 20 years in the US Medicare population.

Design, setting, and patients

Observational study using data from a 20% sample of Medicare claims from 1985-2005. In patients 65 years or older, we identified 786,717 hip fractures for analysis. Medication data were obtained from 109,805 respondents to the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey between 1992 and 2005.

Main outcome measures

Age- and sex-specific incidence of hip fracture and age- and risk-adjusted mortality rates.

Results

Between 1986 and 2005, the an

SUBMITTER: Brauer CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4410861 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature