Table 5.
Outcome variables
| Countries Variables | Sweden | Scotland | Denmark | Finland | Norway | NHFD | Ireland | Germany | Italy | Netherlands | Spain | Range | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| New developed pressure sores (%) | 3.4a | 3 | 3.2 | 4 | 4.8 | 3–4.8 | |||||||
| Delirium (%) | 30.2a | 24.4b | 24.4–30.2 | ||||||||||
| Length of stay (days) | |||||||||||||
| Mean | 7.2 | [9] | 4.2 | 15.3 | 19.5 | 17.0c | (11) | 9.8 | 4.2–19.5 | ||||
| Median | 6 | 9 | [8] | 12 | 16.0c | 9 | 5 | 5 –16 | |||||
| Discharge location (%) | |||||||||||||
| Home | (31) | (52) | 24 | 25 | 12.1 | (22) | (37) | 12.1–52 | |||||
| Nursing home | (15) | (12) | 18 | 27 | 10.5 | (22) | (32) | 10.5–32 | |||||
| Other acute hospital | 2 | 2.8 | 2–2.8 | ||||||||||
| Rehabilitation | (44) | (17) | 44 | 39 | 74.6 | (33) | (25) | 17–74.6 | |||||
| Death in hospital | [4] | (5) | [3] | 5 | 6 | 1.5 | 4.9 | 1.5–6 | |||||
| Readmission (%) {follow-up time (days)} | 6.7 {14}d | 14.1 {30}d | 13.2 {30}(d) | 5 {120}e | 6.3 {30}d | ||||||||
| Reoperation (%) {follow-up time (days)} | 3.2–12.3 {730}f | (3.1) {120} | 2 {30} | 4 {120} | 2.2 {30} | ||||||||
| Mortality during follow-up (%) {follow-up time (days)} | 15.1–20.2 {120}g | 7.7 {30} | 9.5 {30}, 27.9 {365} | 5.5 {30}, 11.2 {90}, 15 {180} | 6.5 {30} | 9 {120} | 8.3 {30} | 5.5–9.5 {30} | |||||
NHFD: England/Wales/Northern Ireland
aReported as a contrary statement
bOn the first post-OP day
cCalculated for the living
dAll cause readmission
eOrthopaedic cause readmission
fDepending on the fracture type and surgical treatment; data from patients operated in 2017
gDepending on gender
When recent data were not available, data from Ojeda-Thies et al. [16] or Johansen et al. [18] were used indicated by () or []