BACKGROUND: The appropriate timing of hip fracture surgery remains a matter of debate.
We sought to estimate the effect of changes in timing policy and the proportion of deaths …

Introduction Delays to surgery after hip fracture have been associated with mortality
Uncertainty remains as to what timing benchmark should be utilized as a marker of quality of …

Importance Although wait times for hip fracture surgery have been linked to mortality and are
being used as quality-of-care indicators worldwide, controversy exists about the duration of …

Purpose Controversy remains around acceptable surgical delay of acute hip fractures with
current guidelines ranging from 24 to 48 h. Increasing healthcare costs force us to consider …

Objectives: To empirically define a “delay” for hip fracture surgery based on clinical
outcomes, and to identify patient demographics and hospital factors contributing to surgical …

Background Existing literature demonstrating the negative impact of delayed hip fracture
surgery on mortality consists largely of observational studies prone to selection bias and …

Objective To estimate the impact of delays in surgery for hip fracture on short-and long-term
outcomes. Design Analysis of inpatient hospital data integrated with national health plan …

The objective of this study was to analyze whether a delay in time from admission until
surgical treatment increased the mortality rate for patients with a closed hip fracture. We …

Objectives: To evaluate the association between the timing of hip fracture surgery with
postoperative length of stay and outcomes. Design: Retrospective review using the …

PURPOSE: There is a perception that the standard of care is to repair hip fractures surgically
within 24 hours of hospitalization. However, it is unclear whether this reduces mortality or …