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. 2024 Mar 8;11:1367457. doi: 10.3389/fsurg.2024.1367457

Table 2.

Clinical characteristics of geriatric hip fracture patients.

Surgery ≤24 h
(N = 151,307)
Surgery >24 h
(N = 103,093)
P-value
Head AIS, n (%) <0.001
 Injury not present 146,865 (97.1) 99,578 (96.6)
 1 4,442 (2.9) 3,515 (3.4)
Face AIS, n (%) <0.001
 Injury not present 147,612 (97.6) 100,263 (97.3)
 1 3,695 (2.4) 2,830 (2.7)
Neck AIS, n (%) 0.991
 Injury not present 151,213 (99.9) 103,028 (99.9)
 1 94 (0.1) 65 (0.1)
Spine AIS, n (%) 0.030
 Injury not present 151,170 (99.9) 102,970 (99.9)
 1 137 (0.1) 123 (0.1)
Thorax AIS, n (%) <0.001
 Injury not present 150,468 (99.4) 102,383 (99.3)
 1 839 (0.6) 710 (0.7)
Abdomen AIS, n (%) <0.001
 Injury not present 150,975 (99.8) 102,731 (99.6)
 1 332 (0.2) 362 (0.4)
Upper extremity AIS, n (%) 0.025
 Injury not present 139,932 (92.5) 95,094 (92.2)
 1 11,375 (7.5) 7,999 (7.8)
Lower extremity AIS, n (%) 0.054
 3 151,294 (100.0) 103,076 (100.0)
 4 11 (0.0) 16 (0.0)
 5 1 (0.0) 0 (0.0)
 Missing 1 (0.0) 1 (0.0)
External AIS, n (%) <0.001
 Injury not present 150,420 (99.4) 102,306 (99.2)
 1 887 (0.6) 787 (0.8)
Systolic blood pressure, mean (SD) 151 (±27.3) 149 (±28.0) <0.001
 Missing, n (%) 5581 (3.7) 3699 (3.6)  
Pulse rate, mean (SD) 80.5 (±15.1) 81.1 (±16.2) <0.001
 Missing, n (%) 5464 (3.6) 3640 (3.5)  
Temperature, mean (SD) 36.7 (±0.6) 36.7 (±0.7) <0.001
 Missing, n (%) 10,692 (7.1) 7,345 (7.1)  
Oxygen saturation, median [IQR] 97 [95–98] 97 [94–98] 0.163
 Missing, n (%) 7,576 (5.0) 5,290 (5.1)  
Respiratory rate, mean (SD) 17.8 (±3.0) 18.0 (±3.2) <0.001
 Missing, n (%) 6,674 (4.4) 4,324 (4.2)  
Type of fracture, n (%) <0.001
 Cervical 52,879 (34.9) 39,946 (38.7)
 Basicervical 7,838 (5.2) 5,600 (5.4)
 Pertrochanteric 76,657 (50.7) 47,306 (45.9)
 Subtrochanteric 5,195 (3.4) 3,252 (3.2)
 Missing 8,738 (5.8) 6,989 (6.8)
Type of surgery, n (%) <0.001
 Internal fixation 101,964 (67.4) 62,996 (61.1)
 Arthroplasty 49,343 (32.6) 40,097 (38.9)

Systolic blood pressure is measured in mmHg. Temperature is measured in degrees Celsius.

AIS, abbreviated injury scale.