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Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 4 Quality of life outcome comparison between the Dutch reference population and our study cohort, and subdivided by patients younger or equal to 65 and older than 65 years of age at the time of fracture

From: Functional and quality of life outcome after non-operatively managed proximal humeral fractures

 

Refer. Pop [13]

Study cohort

p valuea

n = 4504

n = 410

EQ-usb

0.84 ± 0.22

0.82 ± 0.26

0.083

Impairment in dimensionc

   

 Mobility (%)

29

35

0.01

 Self-care (%)

6

17

<0.001

 Usual activity (%) 

19

28

<0.001

 Pain/disorder (%)

39

37

0.424

 Anxiety/depression (%)

11

12

0.535

  1. The outcome scales of the EQ-5D from no problems, mild problems and severe problems were dichotomized to ‘no problems’ versus ‘problems’
  2. aStatistical comparison between our overall cohort and the reference Dutch population, UK-tariff [39]
  3. bMean ± SD values
  4. cPercentage of patients
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