Socioeconomic Inequality in One-Year Mortality of Elderly People with Hip Fracture in Taiwan.

ABSTRACT: Hip fracture commonly results in considerable consequences in terms of disability, mortality, long-term institutional care and cost. Taiwan launched its universal health insurance coverage in 1995, which largely removes financial barriers to health care. This study aims to investigate whether socioeconomic inequality in one-year mortality exists among Taiwanese elderly people. This population-based cohort study included 193,158 elderly patients (≥65 years) admitted for hip fracture between 2000 and 2012. With over a one-year follow-up, 10.52% of the participants died from all causes. The mortality rate was low in the northern part of Taiwan and in urban and high-family-income areas. Multiple Poisson regression models further suggested that the level of >Q1-Q3 and >Q3-Max showed significant

SUBMITTER: Hsu IL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5858421 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature