A predictive model for increased hospital length of stay following geriatric hip fracture.

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify the risk factors that are significantly associated with hospital length of stay (LOS) following geriatric hip fracture and to use these significant variables to develop a LOS calculator.

Materials And Methods: This was a retrospective study examining 614 patients treated for geriatric hip fracture between January 2000 and December 2009 at an urban, Level 1 trauma center. A negative binomial regression analysis was used to identify perioperative variables associated with hospital LOS.

Drivers of hospital length of stay in 56,000 orthopaedic trauma patients: The impact of postoperative cardiac events.

Purpose: To determine whether postoperative cardiac complications following orthopaedic trauma treatment are associated with longer lengths of stay.

Methods: This was a retrospective cohort study. We analyzed orthopaedic trauma patients in the United States for whom data was collected in the ACS-NSQIP database between the years of 2006 and 2013.

Olecranon fractures: factors influencing re-operation.

Purpose: We evaluated factors influencing re-operation in tension band and plating of isolated olecranon fractures.

Methods: Four hundred eighty-nine patients with isolated olecranon fractures who underwent tension band (TB) or open reduction internal fixation (ORIF) from 2003 to 2013 were identified at an urban level 1 trauma centre. Medical records were reviewed for patient information and complications, including infection, nonunion, malunion, loss of function or hardware complication requiring an unplanned surgical intervention.

Distal tibia fractures and medial plating: factors influencing re-operation.

Purpose: We compared types of complications leading to re-operations in open and closed distal tibia fractures treated by locking or nonlocking medial plates.

Methods: Ninety-three patients from 2002 to 2012 who underwent open reduction and internal fixation (ORIF) and medial plating for distal extra-articular or partial articular tibia fractures were identified. Charts were retrospectively reviewed to determine the incidence of re-operation based on the type of complication that developed.