Objective: To investigate the clinical characteristics of older adults undergoing inpatient rehabilitation after hip fractures and to find factors associated with discharge location.
Design: Cross-sectional analysis.
Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation units in the United States.
Nonoperative treatment is used at varying rates among older adults with hip fractures despite the high mortality. This retrospective analysis of 7803 patients 65 and older admitted with hip fractures is to estimate the odds of nonoperative treatment and in-hospital mortality after hip fractures among community-dwelling older adults. 13.
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