Table 1 Descriptive characteristics of 6266 patients with hip fracture registered in the Danish National Indicator Project.
From: Quality of care and 30 day mortality among patients with hip fractures: a nationwide cohort study
Characteristic | N (%) |
|---|---|
Age, years* | 83.2 (65.0-107.8) |
Gender: | Â |
- Women | 4626 (73.8%) |
- Men | 1640 (26.2%) |
Living situation: | Â |
- Living with someone | 1636 (26.1%) |
- Living alone | 3176 (50.7%) |
- Other | 1025 (16.4%) |
- Missing data | 429 (6.9%) |
Alcohol intake†: |  |
- < 14/21 drinks per week | 4305 (68.7%) |
- > 14/21 drinks per week | 186 (2.9%) |
- Missing data | 1775 (28.3%) |
Smoking habits: | Â |
- Current smoker | 1329 (21.2%) |
- Former smoker | 980 (15.6%) |
- Never smoked | 2133 (34.0%) |
- Missing data | 1824 (29.1%) |
Type of fracture: | Â |
- Medial | 3187 (50.9%) |
- Pertrochanteric | 2564 (40.9%) |
- Subtrochanteric | 392 (6.3%) |
- Unknown | 123 (2,0%) |
Fracture displacement: | Â |
- Displaced | 4598 (73.4%) |
- Undisplaced | 907 (14.5%) |
- Unknown | 761 (12.1%) |
Delay before surgery, days*: | 1 (0-124) |
Type of surgery: | Â |
- Osteosynthesis | 4493 (71.7%) |
- Hemi alloplastic | 1320 (21.1%) |
- Total alloplastic | 218 (3.5%) |
- Other operation | 28 (0.5%) |
- Unknown | 207 (3.3%) |
ASA-score: | Â |
- Class 1: Healthy | 584 (9.3%) |
- Class 2: Mild systemic disease | 2916 (46.5%) |
- Class 3: Severe systemic disease not incapacitating | 2042 (32.6%) |
- Class 4: Incapacitating life-threatening systemic disease | 324 (5.2%) |
- Class 5: Moribund patient not expected to survive for 24 h | 9 (0.1%) |
Missing data | 391 (6.2%) |
Charlson comorbidity index score: | Â |
- 0 points | 2442 (39.0%) |
- 1-2 points | 2584 (41.2%) |
- 3+ points | 1240 (19.8%) |