Open AccessThirty-Day Mortality for Proximal Femoral Fractures Treated at a U.K. Elective Center with a Site-Streaming Policy During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Author(s) -
Alastair Beaven,
Danielle Piper,
Chris Plant,
Ajay Sharma,
Yuvraj Agrawal,
G. M. Cooper
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
jb and js open access
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.786
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 2472-7245
DOI - 10.2106/jbjs.oa.21.00009
Subject(s) - medicine , interquartile range , charlson comorbidity index , trauma center , mortality rate , case fatality rate , emergency department , comorbidity , elective surgery , emergency medicine , covid-19 , surgery , epidemiology , retrospective cohort study , disease , psychiatry , infectious disease (medical specialty)
COVID-19 led to the reconfiguration of U.K. orthopaedic trauma services because surgical capacity was threatened in acute centers. We report the 30-day mortality of proximal femoral fractures in older adults treated at an elective orthopaedic center.