title: One-year mortality of elderly patients with hip fracture surgically treated at a hospital in Southern Brazil.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To analyze the mortality rate at one-year follow-up of patients with hip fracture who underwent surgery at the university hospital of this institution.
  
  
  METHODS
  The authors reviewed 213 medical records of hospitalized patients aged 65 years or older, following to the order they were admitted to the orthopedics and traumatology service from January 2012 to August 2013.
  
  
  RESULTS
  One-year mortality rate was 23.6%. Mortality was higher among women, with a 3:1 ratio. Anemia (p= 0.000) and dementia (p= 0.041) were significantly associated with the death group. Patients who remained hospitalized for less than 15 days and who were discharged within seven days after surgery showed increased survival.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  In the present sample of patients with hip fracture who underwent surgery, one-year mortality rate was 23.6%, and the main comorbidities associated with this outcome were anemia and dementia.
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Hospital Universitário Mãe de Deus, Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Canoas, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Marcelo Teodoro Ezequiel
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Guerra
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Hospital Universitário Mãe de Deus, Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Canoas, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Roberto Deves
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Viana
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Hospital Universitário Mãe de Deus, Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Canoas, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Liégenes
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Feil
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Hospital Universitário Mãe de Deus, Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Canoas, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Eduardo Terra
authors.initials: ET
authors.lastname: Feron
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Hospital Universitário Mãe de Deus, Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Canoas, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Jonathan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Maboni
authors.affiliation: Universidade Luterana do Brasil (ULBRA), Hospital Universitário Mãe de Deus, Serviço de Ortopedia e Traumatologia, Canoas, RS, Brazil.
authors.forename: Alfonso Soria-Galvarro
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Vargas
keywords: Elderly; Hip fractures; Mortality