Open AccessPredictors of 1-year Mortality After Hip Fracture Surgery in Patients with Age 50 years and Above: An Indian Experience
Author(s) -
Ravi Gupta,
Deepam Vashist,
Prabha Nini Gupta,
Ashwani Soni
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
indian journal of orthopaedics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.434
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1998-3727
pISSN - 0019-5413
DOI - 10.1007/s43465-021-00396-4
Subject(s) - medicine , hip fracture , context (archaeology) , logistic regression , osteoporosis , cohort , mortality rate , prospective cohort study , orthopedic surgery , demography , surgery , paleontology , sociology , biology
Hip fractures are considered as a major cause of mortality worldwide. Even after being the second most populous country in world and facing huge burden of hip fractures, there is scarcity of data from India. For the first time in Indian context, we analysed the predictors of mortality after hip fracture surgery in patients with age 50 years and above.