Perioperative medicine & outcomes
Socioeconomic status and mortality after acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden: a registry-based nationwide epidemiologic study
Authors' conclusion
Individual socioeconomic status was associated with short- and long-term death after acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden, with education showing the strongest relationship.
Study context
- Population
- Patients undergoing acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden 2015–20
- Participants
- 58,641 patients
- Exposure
- Socioeconomic status indicators; education <9, 9, 10-12 vs >12 yr
- Outcome
- Co-primary: 30-day and 2-yr all-cause mortality
- Follow-up
- 30 days and 2 yr
Methodological detailscross-linked registries, nationwide
- Cross-linked registries
- Nationwide
Main finding
As reported in the abstract
2-yr mortality by level of education · 2 yr
Each group vs >12 yrAdjusted odds ratio (95% CI)P value
10-12 yr
1.16(1.08–1.24)
P < 0.0019 yr
1.20(1.09–1.32)
P < 0.001<9 yr
1.25(1.16–1.34)
P < 0.001- Crude 30-day mortality
- 7.9%
- Crude 2-yr mortality
- 35.3%
- Attributable fraction for 2-yr mortality (SE 0.022)
- 14.0%
- Increase in absolute risk, >12 yr vs <9 yr of education
- 6.3% (95% CI 4.3-8.2)
Observational data: associations, not effects.
Further findings
- Other SES factors, except residential area, also associated with mortality, less substantially
Original publication
Socioeconomic status and mortality after acute hip fracture surgery in Sweden: a registry-based nationwide epidemiologic study. Br J Anaesth. Published 5 August 2026. doi:10.
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