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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 3 Operative care data expressed in means ± standard deviation and percentages

From: Impact of subtrochanteric fractures in the geriatric population: better pre-fracture condition but poorer outcome than pertrochanteric fractures: evidence from the Spanish Hip Fracture Registry

Operative care

Pertrochanteric

Subtrochanteric

OR (95%CI) / p

Time (days) to operation

2.78 ± 4.56

2.98 ± 3.37

0.078

Time (hours) to operation

66.28 ± 108.92

69.64 ± 65.99

0.215

Type of anaesthesia

 General

6.4%

6,9%

1.083 (0.884–1.327)/0.442

 Neuro-axial

93,6%

93.1%

Surgical Treatment*

 Fixation

97.5%

96%

 < 0.001

 Joint replacement

1.8%

3.2%

 Non-operative

0.7%

0.8%

Clinical assessment

 Geriatrician

76.3%

74.6%

0.637

 Internal medicine

19.4%

21.2%

 Both

0.6%

0.5%

 Only trauma surgeon

3.6%

3.7%

  1. Odds ratio (OR) and 95% confidence intervals (95%CI). *p < 0.05