Mortality and morbidity after hip fractures

EDITOR, - Graham Keene and colleagues once again highlight the considerable morbidity and mortality attached to proximal femoral fracture, particularly in those patients with extracapsular fractures.1 The two year difference in mean age between patients with extracapsular fracture (80 years) and intracapsular fracture (78 years) is clinically important and presumably statistically significant, although this is not reported. A significant four year difference in the age of …