Table 1.
Frequency of treatment modalities with demographic data and distribution of fracture types for the study cohort
| Treatment modality a | Number of fracturesn (%) | Age mean (range) |
Female % |
Fracture type (AO/OTA b) n (%) c |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | ||||
| Non-surgical | 3,117 (77) | 68 (16–104) | 73 | 1,653 (53) | 1,299 (42) | 165 (5.3) |
| Surgical | 953 (23) | 65 (16–103) | 68 | 347 (36) | 307 (32) | 299 (31) |
| Plate | 332 (8.2) | 60 (16–99) | 66 | 58 (17) | 170 (51) | 104 (31) |
| IM nail | 255 (6.3) | 71 (19–103) | 69 | 164 (64) | 71 (28) | 20 (7.8) |
| Combination method | 134 (3.3) | 57 (20–102) | 54 | 108 (81) | 17 (13) | 9 (6.7) |
| HA | 139 (3.4) | 70 (35-92) | 75 | 8 (5.8) | 26 (19) | 105 (76) |
| RSA | 93 (2.3) | 75 (51–96) | 85 | 9 (9.7) | 23 (25) | 61 (66) |
| All treatments | 4,070 (100) | 68 (16–104) | 72 | 2,000 (49) | 1,606 (39) | 464 (11) |
aIM nail, intramedullary nail; HA, hemiarthroplasty; RSA, reverse shoulder arthroplasty.
bAO/OTA, Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Osteosynthesefragen/Orthopaedic Trauma Association fracture classification; A, fracture type A; B, fracture type B; C, fracture type C.
cPercentage within the treatment group.