Prolonged pre-operative hospital stay as a predictive factor for early outcomes and mortality after geriatric hip fracture surgery: a single institution open prospective cohort study.
Goran TulicEmilija Dubljanin-RaspopovicSanja Tomanovic-VujadinovicJelena SoptaAleksandar TodorovicRadovan ManojlovicPublished in: International orthopaedics (2017)
In all observed outcome parameters except mortality, pre-operative delay > 72 hours was shown to be a true predictive factor.