Estimating Hip Fracture Morbidity, Mortality and Costs

By R. Braithwaite, N. Col, John B. Wong. Journal of The American Geriatrics Society, 2003

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Incidence and Economic Burden of Osteoporosis‐Related Fractures in the United States, 2005–2025 (2007, positive): “Long-term care costs for hip and pelvic fractures were estimated using published long-term care treatment pathways((24)) and nursing home per diem costs.”
Pathologic fractures correlate with reduced survival in patients with malignant bone disease (2007, neutral): “8 years compared with an age- and sexmatched general population.(23) The large database from the international, multicenter, randomized phase 3 clinical studies of zoledronic acid provided the opportunity to investigate the association between pathologic fractures and survival.”