Table 3.
Patient-specific diagnosis and procedure type in primary hip fracture cohorta
| Diagnostic codes | Total, No. (%) | Hemiarthroplasty (code 81.52), No. (%) | Internal fixation, with open reduction of fracture (code 79.35), No. (%) | Internal fixation, with closed reduction of fracture (code 79.15), No. (%) | Internal fixation, without fracture reduction (code 78.55), No. (%) | Total hip arthroplasty (code 81.51), No. (%) | Other, No. (%) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total | 12,562 (100.0) | 4163 (33.1) | 3731 (29.7) | 2989 (23.8) | 1127 (9.0) | 270 (2.1) | 282 (2.2) |
| Fracture type | |||||||
| Intracapsular (733.14, 820.00,820.01, 820.02, 820.03, 820.09) | 2603 (20.7) | 1317 (31.6) | 347 (9.3) | 510 (17.1) | 285 (25.3) | 82 (30.4) | 62 (22.0) |
| Extracapsular (820.20, 820.21, 820.22, 821.00) | 5671 (45.2) | 147 (3.5) | 2995 (80.3) | 1880 (62.9) | 543 (48.2) | 21 (7.8) | 85 (30.1) |
| Other/cannot be determined (820.8, other) | 4288 (34.1) | 2699 (64.8) | 389 (10.4) | 599 (20.0) | 299 (26.5) | 167 (61.9) | 135 (47.9) |
| ICD-9 code specific | |||||||
| 733.14: Pathologic fracture neck of femur | 665 (5.3) | 248 (6.0) | 151 (4.1) | 114 (3.8) | 117 (10.4) | 15 (5.6) | 20 (7.1) |
| 820.00: Fracture, femur neck; closed; intracapsular section, unspecified | 78 (0.6) | 50 (1.2) | 3 (0.1) | 16 (0.5) | 4 (0.4) | 2 (0.7) | 3 (1.1) |
| 820.01: Fracture, femur neck; closed; epiphysis (separation) (upper), transepiphyseal | 50 (0.4) | 0 (0.0) | 4 (0.1) | 1 (0.0) | 21 (1.9) | 0 (0.0) | 24 (8.5) |
| 820.02: Fracture, femur neck; closed; midcervical section, transcervical NOS | 118 (0.9) | 81 (2.0) | 5 (0.1) | 26 (0.9) | 3 (0.3) | 3 (1.1) | 0 (0.0) |
| 820.03: Fracture, femur neck; closed; base of neck, cervicotrochanteric section | 260 (2.1) | 112 (2.7) | 73 (2.0) | 38 (1.3) | 24 (2.1) | 11 (4.1) | 2 (0.7) |
| 820.09: Fracture, femur neck; closed; other, head of femur, subcapital | 1432 (11.4) | 826 (19.8) | 111 (3.0) | 315 (10.5) | 116 (10.3) | 51 (18.9) | 13 (4.6) |
| 820.20: Fracture, femur neck; pertrochanteric, closed; trochanteric section, unspecified, trochanter: NOS, greater, lesser | 286 (2.3) | 17 (0.4) | 164 (4.4) | 66 (2.2) | 26 (2.3) | 2 (0.7) | 11 (3.9) |
| 820.21: Fracture, femur neck; pertrochanteric, closed; intertrochanteric section | 4517 (36.0) | 123 (3.0) | 2338 (62.7) | 1602 (53.6) | 411 (36.5) | 16 (5.9) | 27 (9.6) |
| 820.22: Fracture, femur neck; pertrochanteric, closed; subtrochanteric section | 706 (5.6) | 6 (0.1) | 414 (11.1) | 205 (6.9) | 68 (6.0) | 2 (0.7) | 11 (3.9) |
| 820.8: Fracture; unspecified part of neck of femur, closed, hip NOS, neck of femur NOS | 3964 (31.6) | 2550 (61.3) | 343 (9.2) | 568 (19.0) | 264 (23.4) | 162 (60.0) | 77 (27.3) |
| 821.00: Fracture; closed; unspecified part of femur, thigh, upper leg | 162 (1.3) | 1 (0.0) | 79 (2.1) | 7 (0.2) | 38 (3.4) | 1 (0.4) | 36 (12.8) |
| Other diagnosis | 324 (2.6) | 149 (3.6) | 46 (1.2) | 31 (1.0) | 35 (3.1) | 5 (1.9) | 58 (20.6) |
a
Some percentages may not total to 100 because of rounding.
ICD-9 = International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision; NOS = not otherwise specified.