The Hip Fracture Assessment Tool: A Scoring System to Assess High Risk Geriatric Hip Fracture Patients for Post-Operative Critical Care Monitoring

Geriatric hip fractures have an incidence in the United States of 400 per 100,000 men and over 900 per 100,000 women and a projected 450,000 to one million hip fractures occurring annually by the year 2050. [1,2] Global estimates suggest 6% of men and 18% of women will suffer a hip fracture. [3]

Source: Injury - April 25, 2024 Category: Orthopaedics Authors: Stephen R. Barchick, Kendall Mieko Masada, George William Fryhofer, Aymen Alqazzaz, Derek James Donegan, Samir Mehta Source Type: research