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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 5 Internal fixation versus prosthetic implant for C+ versus C−

From: Early mortality in hip fracture patients admitted during first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic in Northern Italy: a multicentre study

Variable

IF

Prostheses (HA + THA)

C+ 

(n = 24)

C−

(n = 243)

p

OR (CI95)

C+ 

(n = 22HA + 7THA)

C–

(n = 127HA + 54THA)

p

OR (CI95)

Tot number of patients (%)

24/53 (45%)

243/424 (57%)

0.107

29/53 (55%)

181/424 (43%)

0.107

CI95

0.33–0.59

0.53–0.62

1.62 (0.91–2.88)

0.41–0.67

0.38–0.47

0.62 (0.35–1.09)

Age (mean ± SD)

84.3 ± 1.3

81.7 ± 0.7

0.274

82.5 ± 1.4

80.5 ± 0.7

0.282

CI95

83.75–84.85

81.61–81.79

2.6 (2.28–2.92)

81.97–83.03

80.40–80.60

2.00 (1.67–2.33)

ASA (mean ± SD)

2.7 ± 0.1

2.6 ± 0.1

0.301

2.6 ± 0

2.6 ± 0.1

0.951

Median (IQR25–75)

3 (2–4)

3 (2–4)

0.431a

3 (2–4)

3 (2–4)

0.752a

30-day mortality

8/24 (33%)

13/243 (5%)

0.0002

4/29 (14%)

7/181 (4%)

0.048

CI95

0.18–0.53

0.03–0.09

0.11 (0.04–0.31)

0.05–0.31

0.02–0.08

0.25 (0.07–0.92)

  1. Statistically significant differences (p < 0.05) are expressed as bold italic data
  2. m: mean of the sample; s: standard deviation of the sample; CI95: confidence interval (95%); Δm: difference of the means (mC+ – mC−)
  3. aMann–Whitney. C+: patients with COVID-19; C−: control group; see definitions in Materials and methods