Mortality following surgery for geriatric hip fractures: is it the timing or the co-morbidities?
Eyal YaacobiOmer MaromNadav GutmanShatha ZabarqaYaron BrinNissim OhanaPublished in: Hip international : the journal of clinical and experimental research on hip pathology and therapy (2020)
In elderly patients, hip fracture surgery should be performed within 48 hours of admission. Male and older patients, as well as patients with the aforementioned co-morbidities, are at higher risk of mortality at 3 and 12 months after surgery.