Variation in surgical demand and time to hip fracture repair: a Canadian database study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Competing demands for operative resources may affect time to hip fracture surgery. We sought to determine the time to hip fracture surgery by variation in demand in Canadian hospitals.

Methods

We obtained discharge abstracts of 151,952 patients aged 65 years or older who underwent surgery for a hip fracture between January, 2004 and December, 2012 in nine Canadian provinces. We compared median time to surgery (in days) when demand could be met within a two-day benchmark and when demand required more days, i.e. clearance time, to provide surgery, overall and stratified by presence of medical reasons for delay.

Results

For persons admitted when demand corresponded to a 2-day clearance time, 68% of patients underwent surgery within the 2-day benchmark. When de

SUBMITTER: Sheehan KJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7547438 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature