The consequences of out-of-hours hip fracture surgery: insights from a retrospective nationwide study.
Maximilian Peter ForsstenAhmad Mohammad IsmailTomas BorgYang CaoPer WretenbergGary Alan BassShahin MohseniPublished in: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society (2021)
Out-of-hours surgical intervention is associated with an increase in both 30- and 90-day postoperative mortality among hip fracture patients who received an arthroplasty, but not among patients who underwent internal fixation.