The national cost of acute care of hip fractures associated with osteoporosis.
During 1976, the median cost of the direct medical care for a fracture of the proximal femur related to osteoporosis in Rochester, Minnesota, was $5,644. Age- and sex-specific incidences for this fracture were determined for a 10-year period in the same population. When these data are applied to the United States population, it can be estimated that osteoporosis leads to over 150,000 hip fractures annually, with a short-term direct cost in excess of one billion dollars.
D000368:Aged; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D005260:Female; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000150:complications / Q000191:economics* / Q000601:surgery; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000191:economics; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D008910:Minnesota; D010024:Osteoporosis / Q000150:complications*