Excess mortality in elderly hip fracture patients: An Indian experience

CONCLUSIONS: Indian patients sustaining hip fractures were about 5 times more likely to die than the general population. Although mortality rates increased with age, the highest excess mortality was seen in relatively younger patients. Hip fracture mortality was even higher than that of myocardial infarction, breast cancer, and cervical cancer.PMID:37598017 | DOI:10.1016/j.cjtee.2023.06.004

Source: Chinese Journal of Traumatology - August 19, 2023 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Jaiben George Vijay Sharma Kamran Farooque Vivek Trikha Samarth Mittal Rajesh Malhotra Source Type: research