Skip to main content
. 2022 Jun 13;48(6):4783–4796. doi: 10.1007/s00068-022-02012-y

Table 2.

Baseline characteristics of patients included in the Dutch Hip Fracture Audit from 2016 to 2020

Year 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Total
Total number of patients per year 3562 11,171 13,533 15,732 16,204 60,202
Age (median) 82 82 82 81 81 82
Female gender (%) 68.9 67.0 66.2 67.2 65.7 66.6
Fracture side (%)
 Right 47.9 48.1 48.2 47.9 47.9 48.0
 Left 52.1 51.8 51.7 52.1 52.1 51.9
 Bilateral 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.0 0.0 0.1
Fracture type (%)
 Femoral neck, undislocated 16.3 17.6 18.2 17.7 16.8 17.5
 Femoral neck, dislocated 39.0 38.4 37.4 36.9 38.6 37.8
 Trochanteric type AO-A1 12.9 13.8 13.9 13.8 13.3 13.6
 Trochanteric type AO-A2 24.7 20.4 19.0 19.0 18.5 19.4
 Trochanteric type AO-A3 6.3 5.7 6.0 5.8 5.7 5.8
 Subtrochanteric 0.4 2.6 3.3 4.1 4.4 3.6
 Unspecified 0.4 1.6 2.2 2.7 2.7 2.3
Type of anaesthesia (%)
 General 38.9 35.6 36.2 38.1 39.5 37.7
 Regional 0.9 0.5 0.5 0.7 2.5 1.1
 Spinal 55.7 53.4 54.2 50.4 47.4 51.3
 General + regional 2.5 2.8 2.4 3.6 3.3 3.0
 General + spinal 0.5 2.0 0.8 0.8 0.9 1.0
 Spinal + regional 1.5 5.7 5.9 6.3 6.2 5.8
 Spinal + regional + general 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.1 0.1
Treatment type (%)
 Conservative 2.0 2.0 2.7 2.8 3.7 2.8
 Hemiarthroplasty 35.0 35.3 34.5 33.3 34.5 34.4
 Cannulated screws 6.4 5.9 6.0 5.2 4.3 5.3
 Total hip arthroplasty 4.0 4.3 5.6 6.9 6.9 6.0
 Sliding hip screw 11.3 13.2 12.7 13.2 13.5 13.1
 Intramedullary nailing 41.2 39.2 38.5 38.6 37.0 38.4
 Girdle stone 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.0
Pre-fracture mobility (%)
 Unknown 5.3 8.6 6.6 6.6 5.3 6.5
 Not using any mobility aid 47.9 44.4 45.7 46.6 47.3 46.3
 Mobile outdoors using 1 mobility aid 6.5 5.7 5.6 6.1 7.3 6.3
 Mobile outdoors with 2 aids or frame 30.7 31.3 30.3 30.8 30.8 30.8
 Mobile indoors but never outside without help of others 7.3 7.7 8.5 7.2 7.8 7.7
 No functional mobility (no use of lower extremities) 2.3 2.2 3.4 2.6 1.5 2.4
Dependent in activities of daily living (KATZ6-ADL > 0) (%) 45.1 46.2 45 45.2 43.5 44.9
Pre-fracture living situation (%)
 At home 73.6 75.3 76.5 77.6 78.9 77.0
 Institutionalized 24.4 22.3 20.8 19.7 18.8 20.4
 Unknown 2.0 2.4 2.7 2.8 2.3 2.5
Known with dementia (%) 21.6 20.9 19.4 18.4 18.1 19.2
Known with osteoporosis (%) 13.5 12.9 11.8 11.9 11.8 12.1
ASA-score III, IV or IV (%) 55.1 57.8 57.1 58.2 59.3 58.0
Risk of malnutrition (%)
 No risk (SNAQ 0 or MUST 0) 85.6 86.3 84.7 86.0 86.1 85.8
 Medium risk (SNAQ 1–2 or MUST 1) 3.1 3.4 4.1 4.1 3.9 3.9
 High risk (SNAQ ≥ 3, MUST ≥ 2) 11.3 10.4 11.2 9.9 10.0 10.4

KATZ-6 ADL KATZ index of activities of daily living [20], ASA-score American society of anesthesiologist physical status classification [22], SNAQ short nutritional assessment questionnaire [23], MUST malnutrition universal screening tool [24]