Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Epidemiology, patient outcome and complications after non‐operative management of hip fracture: a systematic review
Authors' conclusion
Non-operative management of hip fracture is relatively common, but there is wide variation that is unexplained by differences in patient characteristics.
Study context
- Population
- Older people presenting to hospital with hip fracture
- Participants
- 10,763,994 people · 185 studies
- Comparison
- Non-operative management vs surgery
- Outcome
- Proportion of non-operative management
Methodological detailsrandom effects meta-analysis with adjustment for clustering, Newcastle-Ottawa Scale risk of bias, Risk of bias generally low except expected confounding by indication
- Random effects meta-analysis with adjustment for clustering
- Newcastle-Ottawa Scale risk of bias
- Risk of bias generally low except expected confounding by indication
Pooled result
As reported in the abstract
Overall proportion of non-operative management
Non-operative
8.4%
95% CI 7.2–9.7%
Further pooled results
Association of non-operative proportions with sex, fracture type or ethnicity
- No consistent association
Mortality · all time points
- Non-operative management associated with greater RR of death at all time points
Original publication
Epidemiology, patient outcome and complications after non‐operative management of hip fracture: a systematic review. Anaesthesia. Published 25 August 2025. doi:10.
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