Geriatric Patients with Hip Fracture: Frailty and Other Risk Factors Affecting the Outcome.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Hip fracture is a devastating health-care problem in a geriatric patient, leading to high mortality and morbidity. Preoperative risk assessment in the geriatric patient is often inexact because of the difficulty in measuring their poor physiologic reserves.

Aims

The primary objective was to find the association of modified frailty index (MFI) with 90-day mortality in geriatric patients who received anesthesia for fractured hip. Secondary objectives were to assess the association of preoperative waiting time with the 90-day mortality and the correlation of preexisting medical conditions with poor functional outcome among the survivors.

Settings and designs

This prospective, observational study was conducted at a tertiary care institution.

Subjects and met

SUBMITTER: Vasu BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6020579 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature