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Research Article: Prioritizing patients for hip fracture surgery: the role of frailty and cardiac risk

Date Published: 2024-03-27

Abstract:
Introduction: The number of patients with hip fractures continues to rise as the average age of the population increases. Optimizing outcomes in this cohort is predicated on timely operative repair. The aim of this study was to determine if patients with hip fractures who are frail or have a higher cardiac risk suffer from an increased risk of in-hospital mortality when surgery is postponed >24?h.

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