Complications after hip fracture surgery: are they preventable?

Eur J Trauma Emerg Surg · 2018 · PMC6096618 · PMID 28795198

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For postoperative pneumonia, the relationship with CCI was borderline significant (OR = 2.18, 95% CI 0.97–4.90, p = 0.06).

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Patients who received general instead of spinal anesthesia did have more complications, but this difference did not reach statistical significance (OR = 1.51, 95% CI 0.97–2.35, p = 0.07).

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