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ReviewCureus2021

Neck of Femur Fractures in the First Eight Months of the COVID-19 Pandemic: A UK Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

Loukas Andritsos, Owain Thomas, Susil Pallikadavath, Sayyied Kirmani, Sharan Sambwhani

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Review in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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2 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Loukas AndritsosTrauma and Orthopaedics, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, GBR.
Owain ThomasTrauma and Orthopaedics, Northampton General Hospital, Northampton, GBR.
Susil PallikadavathCardiology, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester, GBR.
Sayyied KirmaniTrauma and Orthopaedics, Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, GBR.
Sharan SambwhaniTrauma and Orthopaedics, Kettering General Hospital, Kettering, GBR.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Neck of femur (NOF) fracture patients have significant 30-day mortality. The incidence of NOF fractures remained high during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in the United Kingdom. Consequently, numerous cases were complicated with concurrent severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection. We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis of all studies from the United Kingdom related to NOF fractures and 30-day mortality outcomes during the pandemic.   A systematic review and meta-analysis was performed and reported as per the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines. Two reviewers independently searched on Medline for studies that were published between the 1st of March 2020 and the 1st of November 2020 in the United Kingdom. The following outcomes were compared: 30-day mortality, time to surgery, and anaesthetic risk.   A total of five articles were included in this review. In total, 286 patients with NOF fractures and COVID-19 infection were identified, with 30-day mortality ranging from 30.5% to 50% (odds ratio = 6.02; 95% confidence interval = 4.10-8.85; χ

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coronavirus disease 2019covid-19hip and proximal femur traumamortality ratesneck of femur fractureorthopaedic researchtime to surgery

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PMID35018261
PMCPMC8740203

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