Among community-dwelling adults with dementia, surgical intervention of femoral head and neck fractures was associated with decreased mortality compared with nonsurgical treatment, according to published results.
Researchers used Medicare fee-for-service data to perform a retrospective cross-sectional study of 56,209 community-dwelling adults (mean age, 86.4 years) who received surgical intervention (n = 33,142; 59%) or nonsurgical treatment (n = 23,067; 41%) of a hip fracture from Jan. 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018.
Researchers noted surgical intervention was more common among patients with