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## Introduction: Since most hip fractures are treated surgically, it is imperative to find an optimum fracture-to-surgery time to decrease the potential complications and enhance postoperative outcomes. in comparison to the vast plethora of literature available on surgical delay and its implications on mortality, very little, if any, research is available on the impact of delayed surgery on postoperative icu admission. the primary objective of our study is to examine the factors influencing post-surgical icu admission in order to work on preventive strategies to reduce the potential associated morbidity. ## Material and methods: Investigators did a nested case control study in a university hospital. a case was defined as a patient who had postoperative icu admission while controls were patients who did not have postoperative icu admission after hip fracture surgery. the primary outcome variable was postoperative icu admission. the exposure variable was defined as the time to surgery which was categorized into two categories; early and late; the early surgery included patients who were operated within ≤ 48 h and the late included patients who had their surgery >48 h. information on

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Author

Hasan, Obada ;Mazhar, Laraib ;Rabbani, Umar ;Rabbani, Amna ;Mahmood, Fatima ;Noordin, Shahryar

Publisher

Elsevier BV

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)