abstract: In older people with hip fracture, chest infection and heart failure are the most common postoperative complications and lead to increased mortality. In patients who developed postoperative heart failure, mortality in this study was 65 per cent at 30 days and 92 per cent were dead by one year. Mortality for those who developed a chest infection was 45 per cent at 30 days.
authors.affiliation: MSc gerontological practice, University of Portsmouth.
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Sander