Nara Medical University Reports Findings in Pulmonary Embolism (Risk factors for mortality after hip fracture surgery in Japan using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan): Lung Diseases and Conditions – Pulmonary Embolism

2023 JUL 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- New research on Lung Diseases and Conditions - Pulmonary Embolism is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating in Kashihara, Japan, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “We investigated the risk factors for mortality of hip fracture in the elderly using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims in Japan, and survival was significantly related to sex, age, fracture type, surgical procedure, delayed operative date, comorbidities, blood transfusions, and pulmonary embolism. Hip fracture is the most common fracture in the elderly and is known to have a high mortality rate.”

The news reporters obtained a quote from the research from Nara Medical University, “In Japan, to the best of our knowledge, no studies have reported on mortality risk factors for hip fracture using nationwide registry databases. This study aimed to determine the number of occurrences of hip fracture and factors that increase mortality using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan. This study included extracted data from patients who were hospitalized and underwent surgical treatment for hip fracture between 2013 and 2021, using a nationwide health insurance claims database in Japan. Patient characteristics, such as sex, age, fracture type, surgical procedure, delayed operative date, comorbidities, blood transfusions, and pulmonary embolism, were tabulated to obtain 1-year and in-hospital mortality rates. Both 1-year and in-patient survival were significantly lower in men, older patients, patients who underwent surgery after 3 days of admission, and patients with trochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures, internal fixation, more preoperative comorbidities, blood transfusions, and pulmonary embolism. Survival was significantly related to sex, age, fracture type, surgical procedure, delayed operative date, comorbidities, blood transfusions, and pulmonary embolism.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “As the number of male patients with hip fracture will increase with the aging of society, medical staff must provide sufficient information before surgery to avoid postoperative mortality.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Risk factors for mortality after hip fracture surgery in Japan using the National Database of Health Insurance Claims and Specific Health Checkups of Japan. Archives of Osteoporosis, 2023;18(1):91. Archives of Osteoporosis can be contacted at: Springer London Ltd, 236 Grays Inn Rd, 6TH Floor, London WC1X 8HL, England. (Springer - www.springer.com; Archives of Osteoporosis - http://www.springerlink.com/content/1862-3522/)

Our news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Yuki Nishimura, Dept. of Orthopaedic Surgery, Nara Medical University, Kashihara, Japan. Additional authors for this research include Yusuke Inagaki, Tatsuya Noda, Yuichi Nishioka, Tomoya Myojin, Munehiro Ogawa, Akira Kido, Tomoaki Imamura and Yasuhito Tanaka.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11657-023-01293-z. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

The publisher of the journal Archives of Osteoporosis can be contacted at: Springer London Ltd, 236 Grays Inn Rd, 6TH Floor, London WC1X 8HL, England.

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