Patients admitted for intertrochanteric fractures also experienced a shorter hospital length of stay and an increasing trend towards early fracture fixation ( p < 0.001), with a greater usage of intramedullary nails in the treatment of such fractures ( p < 0.001).
There was a significant trend ( p < 0.001) of increasing comminuted fractures over the 10-year period.
This increase is significant and bodes a worrying trend if the proportion of unstable intertrochanteric fractures continue to rise in the following decades, posing a challenge to accurate fracture reduction and stable surgical fixation.