Abstract:
:A cohort study was done to determine the direct impact of hip fracture on mortality in older people. Survival was compared between 211 hip fracture patients from a defined area and 201 non-hip fracture control subjects randomly selected from the same area. The mortality rate 1 year after hip fracture was 21.7%; 1-year mortality in the comparison group was 4.7%. The crude hazard ratio for hip fracture and mortality was 4.0 (95% confidence interval [CI] = 2.2, 7.4); adjusting for multiple health-related variables reduced it to 3.3 (95% CI = 1.7, 6.5). This finding suggests that the observed excess mortality after hip fracture is not explained by poor prefracture health status.
journal_name
Am J Public Healthjournal_title
American journal of public healthauthors
Katelaris AG,Cumming RGdoi
10.2105/ajph.86.4.557subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1996-04-01 00:00:00pages
557-60issue
4eissn
0090-0036issn
1541-0048journal_volume
86pub_type
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