Mortality rates in older patients with hip fractures decreased from 2010 to 2019
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LAS VEGAS — Presented results showed mortality rates in older patients with femoral neck or intertrochanteric hip fractures decreased from 2010 to 2019.
At the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, Utkarsh Anil, MD, an orthopedic resident at NYU Langone Health, presented results of his study, which analyzed mortality rates among older patients with hip fractures in New York.
Anil and colleagues at NYU Langone Health used the New York Statewide Planning and Research Cooperative System database to analyze 142,540 patients (mean age of 83.29 years) who were admitted to the hospital or ED for femoral neck or intertrochanteric hip fractures between 2010 and 2019.
Researchers found overall mortality rates were 9.82% at 3 months and 16.06% at 12 months. From 2010 to 2019, mortality rates decreased from 10.8% to 8.6% at 3 months and from 17.7% to 16.9% at 1 year. Anil noted mortality hazard ratios demonstrated a continued year-on-year decrease from 2010 to 2018; however, hazard ratios increased slightly from 2018 to 2019. He also noted patient age and male gender were associated with increased hazard ratios, while white race was associated with decreased hazard ratios.
“In the last 10 years, we’ve gotten progressively [and] slowly but steadily better at improving these postoperative mortality outcomes and that’s what we wanted to show with this study,” Anil told Healio.
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Anil U, et al. Paper 70. Presented at: American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting; March 7-11, 2023; Las Vegas.
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