In-hospital hip fracture mortality trends in older adults: The National Hospital Discharge Survey, 1988-2007

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To the Editor: Older adults have a 5- to 8 times greater risk of all-cause mortality during the first 3 months after hip fracture, with almost half of the mortality risk during the first year attributed to in-hospital deaths.Although hip fracture rates have decreased in older adults in the United States since the mid-1990s, there is little information about nationwide trends in in-hospital hip fracture mortality in older adults. A recent hip fracture-related mortality study in Texas demonstrated that in-hospital hip fracture-related deaths decreased 1.8% per year, from 75.4% in 1990 to 60.1% in 2007. The aim of the current study was to examine nationwide trends in in-hospital hip fracture mortality in older adults between 1988 and 2007.