Social Consequences of surgical complications

Description: The social consequences of surgical complications for patients with proximal femoral fractures. Age and Aging, Sept 1993 A case-matched study was performed to assess the social effects of surgical complications of operative fixation of fractures of the proximal femur. Fifty-two patients aged over sixty-five, half with deep wound infection, the remainder with serious early mechanical problems requiring revision surgery to correct these, had their hospital fatality, length of stay, mobility and social dependency at admission and on discharge compared with patients free from such complications.