Pre-fracture medication use as a predictor of 30-day mortality in hip fracture patients: an analysis of 141,201 patients.

Purpose: To evaluate the predictive value of pre-fracture medication usage on 30-day mortality following a hip fracture.

Methods: Information on age, sex, fracture type, time of death and Charlson co-morbidity index (CCI) was collected from the Danish National Patient Registry on all patients above 60 years, sustaining a hip fracture during the period January 1995 to December 2013. Information on drug usage was obtained from the Danish National Prescription Database.

Orthogeriatric Service Reduces Mortality in Patients With Hip Fracture.

Introduction: Orthogeriatric service has been shown to improve outcomes in patients with hip fracture. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of orthogeriatrics at Bispebjerg University Hospital, Denmark. The primary outcome is mortality inhospital and after 1, 3, and 12 months for patients with hip fracture.

Opioids in hip fracture patients: an analysis of mortality and post hospital opioid use.

Objective: The aim of this study was to investigate the use of opioids among hip fracture patients, and the potential relation between perioperative prescription of opioids, mortality and chronic opioid use. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of opioids among hip fracture patients postoperatively and 90- and 180 days after discharge. The study also analysed predictors of early death at 30-, 90 and 365 days after discharge.

[Collaboration between geriatricians and orthopaedic surgeons on elderly patients].

Close collaboration between geriatricians and orthopaedic surgeons on elderly patients with hip fractures reduces mortality, the number of complications, and the length of hospital stay and increases the functional abilities of the patients. In some Danish hospitals the two groups of doctors work closely together, in others there are few or no geriatricians.

Metaanalysis of risk factors for mortality in patients with hip fracture.

Introduction: The aim of this meta-analysis is to assess the association of three different clinical score systems with the mortality in hip fracture patients.

Methods: A literature search was conducted on November 13, 2011 using PubMed and Embase. The search yielded 315 publications which were reviewed on the basis of the inclusion criteria.

Is mortality after hip fracture associated with surgical delay or admission during weekends and public holidays? A retrospective study of 38,020 patients.

Background And Purpose: Hip fractures are associated with high mortality, but the cause of this is still not entirely clear. We investigated the effect of surgical delay, weekends, holidays, and time of day admission on mortality in hip fracture patients.

Patients And Methods: Using data from the Danish National Indicator Project, we identified 38,020 patients admitted from 2003 to 2010.

Value of routine blood tests for prediction of mortality risk in hip fracture patients.

Background: There is a 5- to 8-fold increased risk of mortality during the first 3 months after a hip fracture. Several risk factors are known. We studied the predictive value (for mortality) of routine blood tests taken on admission.

Excess mortality in men compared with women following a hip fracture. National analysis of comedications, comorbidity and survival.

Introduction: osteoporosis is a common disease, and the incidence of osteoporotic fractures is expected to rise with the growing elderly population. Immediately following, and probably several years after a hip fracture, patients, both men and women, have a higher risk of dying compared to the general population regardless of age. The aim of this study was to assess excess mortality following hip fracture and, if possible, identify reasons for the difference between mortality for the two genders.