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Table 1 Patient characteristics and factors associated with early-surgery.

From: Timing of surgery for hip fracture and in-hospital mortality: a retrospective population-based cohort study in the Spanish National Health System

  

All patients

Factors related with early surgery

  

N

%

n(*)

%

OR(**)

95CI OR

p

Age

60-69 years

3,584

6.34

930

25.95

1.00

  
 

70-79 years

15,840

28.04

3,825

24.15

0.91

0.84-0.99

0.024

 

80-89 years

27,309

48.33

6,658

24.38

0.92

0.85-0.99

0.040

 

90+ years

9,767

17.29

2,585

26.47

1.03

0.94-1.12

0.547

Sex

Male

12,154

21.52

2,750

22.63

1.00

  
 

Female

44,328

78.48

11,240

25.36

1.16

1.11-1.22

< 0.001

Fracture

Intracapsular

22,804

40.36

5,400

23.68

1.00

  
 

Trochanteric

29,999

53.10

7,747

25.82

1.12

1.08-1.17

< 0.001

 

NOS

3,697

6.54

851

23.02

0.96

0.89-1.05

0.380

Surgery

Fixation

35,214

62.33

9,394

26.68

1.00

  
 

Arthroplasty

21,286

37.67

4,604

21.63

0.76

0.73-0.80

< 0.001

Weekend

No

41,759

73.91

10,824

25.92

1.00

  

Admission

Yes

14,741

26.09

3,174

21.53

0,78

0,75-0.82

< 0.001

Charlson

0

36,371

64.37

9,644

26.52

1.00

  

Index

1

15,222

26.94

3,402

22.35

0.80

0.76-0.83

< 0.001

 

2

3,598

6.37

721

20.04

0.69

0.64-0.76

< 0.001

 

3

802

1.42

148

18.45

0.63

0.52-0.75

< 0.001

 

> 3

507

0.90

83

16.37

0.54

0.43-0.69

< 0.001

Risk

0

1,818

3.22

512

27.98

1.00

  

Mortality

4-6

10,367

18.35

2,747

26.33

0.92

0.82-1.03

0.137

Index

7-12

22,237

39.36

5,527

24.70

0.84

0.76-0.94

0.002

 

> 12

22,078

39.08

5,212

23.74

0.80

0.72-0.89

< 0.001

Number of

0-1

19,646

34.77

5,783

29.44

1.00

  

Secondary

2-3

17,972

31.81

4,629

25.76

0.83

0.80-0.87

< 0.001

Diagnoses

4-6

11,322

20.04

2,364

20.88

0.63

0.60-0.67

< 0.001

 

> 6

7,560

13.38

1,222

16.16

0.46

0.43-0.49

< 0.001

Time to

0-1 days

13,998

24.78

13,998

100.00

--

--

--

Surgery

2-5 days

28,069

49.68

--

0.00

--

--

--

 

6-14 days

13,303

23.55

--

0.00

--

--

--

 

14-30 days

1,130

2.00

--

0.00

--

--

--

Year

2002

13,593

24.06

3,528

25.95

1.00

  
 

2003

14,403

25.49

3,705

25.72

0.99

0.94-1.04

0.659

 

2004

14,233

25.19

3,549

24.94

0.95

0.90-1.00

0.051

 

2005

14,271

25.26

3,216

22.54

0.83

0.79-0.88

< 0.001

TOTAL

 

56,500

100.00

13,998

24.78

   
  1. Bivariate analysis.
  2. (*) Number and proportion of patients with early surgery. (**) OR of early surgery regarding the basal value in each stratum. Variables with missing values: sex (n = 18); NOS: Non-Otherwise Specified; OR: odds ratio; 95%CI: 95% confidence interval.