Orthogeriatrics prevents functional decline in hip fracture patients: report from two randomized controlled trials

Table 4 Impact of intervention during hospital stay, and 4 months and 12 months after hospital stay

Hospital stay	Comprehensive geriatric care (N = 361)	Orthopedic care (N = 365)	p-value
Waiting time for surgery in hours, mean (SD)^a	30.5 (26.8)	29.2 (19.1)	0.76¹
Length of stay in days, mean (SD)	12.8 (7.9)	9.8 (6.7)	< 0.001¹
In-hospital mortality (%)	8 (2.2)	8 (2.2)	0.98²
4 months after surgery	Comprehensive geriatric care (N = 295)	Orthopedic care (N = 291)
New nursing home admissions (%)^b	44 (16.9)	53 (20.9)	0.23²
12 months after surgery	Comprehensive geriatric care (N = 260)	Orthopedic care (N = 245)
New nursing home admissions (%)^b	45 (19.2)	55 (25.3)	0.11²

SD standard deviation
^aWaiting time for surgery in hours, defined as hours from admission to start of anesthesia, missing from 7 patients in the orthopaedic care group and 2 patients in the comprehensive geriatric care group
^bInformation about new nursing home admissions missing/unknown in 2 patients in the orthopedic care group at 4 months, and 1 patient in the orthopedic care group at 12 months. Fifty patients from the orthopedic care group and fifty-two patients from the geriatric care group lived in a nursing home before the hip fracture
¹Mann-Whitney U Test
²Pearson Chi-Square test

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