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. 2021 Mar 2;14(2):200–210. doi: 10.1177/1758573221994860

Table 3.

Demographics for all patients with olecranon fracture by treatment group.

Non-operative ORIF TBW p overall
Total subjects 44 50 82
Age (mean (SD)) 83.82 (6.49) 80.14 (5.61) 80.77 (5.82) 0.006
 Sex (%)
 Female 33 (75.0) 39 (78.0) 54 (65.9) 0.274
 Male 11 (25.0) 11 (22.0) 28 (34.1)
Other injuries (%)
 No 38 (86.4) 41 (82.0) 69 (84.1) 0.846
 Yes 6 (13.6) 9 (18.0) 13 (15.9)
Other injury location (%)
 Wrist 0 (0.0) 1 (11.1) 5 (41.7) 0.117
 Hip 4 (66.7) 4 (44.4) 6 (50.0)
 Humeral shaft 0 (0.0) 2 (22.2) 0 (0.0)
 Proximal humerus 2 (33.3) 1 (11.1) 0 (0.0)
 Talus 0 (0.0) 1 (11.1) 1 (8.3)

SD: standard deviation; ORIF: open reduction and internal fixation; TBW: tension band wire.

All values represent numbers of cases and proportion in parentheses unless otherwise stated.