Hip international : the journal of clinical and experimental research on hip pathology and therapy
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Multicenter Study
The proportion of perioperative mortalities attributed to cemented implantation in hip fracture patients treated by hemiarthroplasty.
Bone cement for fixation of prostheses, comorbidity and age have been previously shown to be associated with increased relative risk of mortality within the first day of surgery. However, the proportion of mortalities associated to each of these exposures is not adequately expressed by relative risk estimates. ⋯ The estimated AFs on perioperative mortality in hip fracture patients treated by hemiarthroplasty showed that about half of the mortalities within the first day of surgery could be associated with the use of bone cement.