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Table 1 Baseline characteristics of 875 patients admitted to hospital with a hip fracture in the period 2018 to 2020

From: Does a bicycle accident as the cause of proximal femur fracture indicate that geriatric co-management is superfluous? A retrospective cohort study

 

Total study sample

Cause of hip fracture

 

(n = 875)

Bicycle accident (BA) (n = 102)

Non-bicycle accident (NBA) (n = 773)

p-value§

Females

606 (69.3)

56 (54.9)

550 (71.2)

0.001$

Age in years, mean (SD)

83.4 (6.9)

79.8 (5.8)

83.9 (6.9)

< 0.001*

Dementia

149 (17.0)

4 (4.0)

145 (18.7)

< 0.001&

Living situation before hip fracture

   

< 0.001&

 at home without ADL support

547 (62.5)

98 (96.1)

449 (58.1)

 at home with ADL support

213 (24.3)

4 (3.9)

209 (27.0)

 residential care center

106 (12.1)

0 (0)

106 (13.7)

 Other

9 (1.0)

0 (0)

9 (1.0)

Type of fracture

   

0.787$

 medial collum fracture

450 (51.4)

55 (53.9)

395 (51.1)

 pertrochanteric fracture

309 (35.3)

33 (32.4)

276 (35.7)

 subtrochanteric

47 (5.4)

7 (6.9)

40 (5.2)

 periprosthetic fracture

69 (7.9)

7 (6.9)

62 (8.0)

Type of treatment

   

< 0.001&

 hip hemiarthroplasty

344 (39.3)

31 (30.4)

313 (40.5)

 gamma nail

336 (38.4)

34 (33.3)

302 (39.1)

 total hip arthroplasty

44 (5.0)

12 (11.8)

32 (4.1)

 dynamic hip screw

26 (3.0)

8 (7.8)

18 (2.3)

 cannulated hip screws

25 (2.9)

6 (5.9)

19 (2.5)

 other surgical techniques

56 (6.4)

7 (6.9)

49 (6.3)

 non-surgical treatment

44 (5.0)

4 (3.9)

40 (5.2)

  1. Figures are numbers (%) unless stated otherwise
  2. ADL Activities of daily living
  3. § for difference between the BA and NBA subgroups
  4. * from Student-t test
  5. $ from Pearson Chi-Square test
  6. & from Fisher’s exact test