Dementia is a surrogate for frailty in hip fracture mortality prediction.
Maximilian Peter ForsstenIoannis IoannidisAhmad Mohammad IsmailGary Alan BassTomas BorgDhanisha Jayesh TrivediShahin MohseniPublished in: European journal of trauma and emergency surgery : official publication of the European Trauma Society (2022)
Dementia functions as a surrogate for frailty when predicting mortality up to one year after hip fracture surgery. The presence of dementia in a patient without frailty does not appreciably contribute to the prediction of postoperative mortality.