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| Methods | Parallel RCT Approved by the ethics committee and informed consents obtained Site: 3 university hospitals: Beth Israel, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, and Maimonides Medical Center, New York, NY, USA Data collection: April 2009 to March 2013 Funding: governmental Registration: NCT00749489 |
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| Participants | 164 adult patients 60 years of age and over, presenting from 08H00 to 20H00 with a radiographically confirmed hip fracture (femoral neck, intertrochanteric, or pericapsular) Excluded: history of advanced dementia, presence of multiple trauma, pathological fractures, bilateral hip fractures, previous fracture or surgery at the currently fractured site, transferred from another hospital, with cirrhosis or liver failure, had a delay between fracture and admission > 48 hours, were delirious according to the Confusion Assessment Type of fracture: femoral neck (40.5%) or femoral intertrochanteric fracture Anaesthetic technique for surgery: regional (62.1%) or general anaesthesia Surgical technique: hemi‐arthroplasty (29%) or internal fixation Mean age: 82.5 years (range 60 to 98) Percentage female: 72.6% Length of follow‐up: 6 weeks |
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Intervention: femoral nerve block followed by a continuous fascia iliaca block (N = 72) Comparator: no nerve block (N = 81) |
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| Outcomes | Relevant to this review.
Not relevant to this review.
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| Notes | Conflict of interest: "the editor‐in‐chief has reviewed the conflict of interest checklist provided by the authors and has determined that the authors have no financial or any other kind of personal conflicts with this paper. Dr. Silverstein died before the study’s completion. At the time of his death, he reported no conflicts of interest" DOI: 10.1111/jgs.14386 Email sent on 5 January 2020 Sources obtained for risk of bias assessment.
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