Objectives: Evaluate the prevalence of hospital mortality in older adult patients with femoral fracture undergoing surgical treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic period, and to evaluate whether COVID-19 infection, clinical, and orthopedic factors interfered with mortality.

Material And Methods: A retrospective study was conducted by reviewing medical records. Patients over 60 years of age with proximal femoral fracture undergoing surgical treatment were included. Overall mortality was calculated, as well as mortality whose primary or secondary cause was COVID-19 infection, to determine if infection influenced patient mortality. Clinical and orthopedic factors that interfered with mortality were evaluated. Categorical variables were compared using the Chi-square test or Fisher's exact test. Both unpaired t-test (parametric variables) and Mann-Whitney test (non-parametric variables) were used. The Kaplan-Meier mortality curve was constructed.

Conclusion: The mortality of older adult patients with femoral fracture undergoing surgical treatment during the COVID-19 pandemic was 4.2%. Male sex, older age, and those who underwent blood transfusion had higher mortality rates. COVID-infected patients had ten times more chance of death and died twice as fast as the non-infected population.

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