Osteoporotic hip fracture—Comorbidities and factors associated with in-hospital mortality in the elderly: A nine-year cohort study in Brazil

The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with the causes of in-hospital morbidity and mortality in an elderly Brazilian population due to osteoporotic hip fractures. Retrospective cohort study involving a population over 60 years of age admitted to hospital due to osteoporotic hip fra...

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Veröffentlicht in:PloS one 2022-08, Vol.17 (8), p.e0272006-e0272006
Hauptverfasser: Peterle, Viviane Cristina Uliana, Novaes, Maria Rita Carvalho Garbi, Junior, Paulo Emiliano Bezerra, Júnior, João Carlos Geber, Magalhães Cavalcante, Rodrigo Tinôco, da Silva Junior, Jurandi Barrozo, Portela, Ray Costa, de Paula, Ana Patricia
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Zusammenfassung:The aim of the study was to identify factors associated with the causes of in-hospital morbidity and mortality in an elderly Brazilian population due to osteoporotic hip fractures. Retrospective cohort study involving a population over 60 years of age admitted to hospital due to osteoporotic hip fractures and followed up from hospitalization to outcome (discharge or mortality) from 2010 to 2018, in a public hospital in Brasília, the capital of Brazil. Multivariate analysis was performed using the Poisson regression model with a robust variance, observing the hierarchical model proposed and the receiver operating characteristic (ROC) curve to obtain the cutoff point for mortality incidence in relation the total length of hospital stay. Significance level was set as p < 0.05. The analyses were conducted using the SAS 9.4 software. The mean hospital mortality rate among the 402 patients involved was 18.4%, and the associations made with the outcome mortality were per relevance: respiratory infection, age over 90 years, high preoperative cardiovascular risk, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) as comorbidity, serum hemoglobin level [less than or equal to] 10 and other infections. Mortality also showed association with longer total length of hospital stay, as well as with prolonged postoperative period. Hip fractures in the elderly due to osteoporosis indicate a relationship between the sicker profile of the aging elderly population and the prevalence of chronic diseases strongly associated with in-hospital infections, contributing to increased mortality. There were fewer early interventions, and mortality was also associated with prolonged postoperative period. The aim of this study was not to compare independent variables with each other, but suggests the relationship between the presence of comorbidities, which predisposes to the development of infections, directly linked to mortality.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0272006