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The Bone & Joint Journal
Vol. 101-B, Issue 1 | Pages 83 - 91
1 Jan 2019
Higher 30-day mortality associated with the use of intramedullary nails compared with sliding hip screws for the treatment of trochanteric hip fractures
Whitehouse MR Berstock JR Kelly MB Gregson CL Judge A Sayers A Chesser TJ
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Aims

The aim of this study was to investigate the association between the type of operation used to treat a trochanteric fracture of the hip and 30-day mortality.

Patients and Methods

Data on 82 990 patients from the National Hip Fracture Database were analyzed using generalized linear models with incremental case-mix adjustment for patient, non-surgical and surgical characteristics, and socioeconomic factors.