Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
Table 2 The effect of surgical delay in fracture neck of femur surgery
Observed mortality and morbidity rates at 24 and 48-h cutoffs | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Delay of surgery | Delay of surgery | |||||
≤24 h | >24 h | P value | ≤48 h | >48 h | P value | |
Mortality | 8.20 % | 18.82 % | 0.071 | 10.62 % | 27.3 % | 0.021 |
Morbidity | 45.90 % | 62.35 % | 0.048 | 46.90 % | 84.8 % | 0.00011 |