Open AccessThe FAITH and HEALTH Trials: Are We Studying Different Hip Fracture Patient Populations?
Author(s) -
Michael Blankstein,
Emil H. Schemitsch,
Sofia Bzovsky,
Daniel Axelrod,
Rudolf W. Poolman,
Frede Frihagen,
Mohit Bhandari,
Marc F. Swiontkowski,
Sheila Sprague,
Patrick C. Schottel,
Faith Investigators
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
journal of orthopaedic trauma
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.221
H-Index - 121
eISSN - 1531-2291
pISSN - 0890-5339
DOI - 10.1097/bot.0000000000001930
Subject(s) - medicine , femoral neck , randomized controlled trial , osteoporosis , physical therapy , surgery
Over the past decade, 2 randomized controlled trials were performed to evaluate 2 surgical strategies (internal fixation and arthroplasty) for the treatment of low-energy femoral neck fractures in patients aged ≥50 years. We evaluated whether patient populations in both the FAITH and HEALTH trials had different baseline characteristics and compared the displaced femoral neck fracture cohort from the FAITH trial to HEALTH trial patients.