作者
KJ Sheehan, Chris Filliter, Boris Sobolev, AR Levy, Pierre Guy, Lisa Kuramoto, JD Kim, Michael Dunbar, SN Morin, JM Sutherland, Susan Jaglal, Edward Harvey, Lauren Beaupre, Anna Chudyk, Canadian Collaborative Study on Hip Fractures
发表日期
2018/3
期刊
Osteoporosis International
卷号
29
页码范围
653-663
出版商
Springer London
简介
Summary
The extent of Canadian provincial variation in hip fracture surgical timing is unclear. Provinces performed a similar proportion of surgeries within three inpatient days after adjustment. Time to surgery varied by timing of admission across provinces. This may reflect different approaches to providing access to hip fracture surgery.
Introduction
The aim of this study was to compare whether time to surgery after hip fracture varies across Canadian provinces for surgically fit patients and their subgroups defined by timing of admission.
Methods
We retrieved hospitalization records for 140,235 patients 65 years and older, treated surgically for hip fracture between 2004 and 2012 in Canada (excluding Quebec). We studied the proportion of surgeries on admission day and within 3 inpatient days, and times required for 33 …
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