What is it about?
Uncertainty in the available evidence may be due to differences in characteristics of patients, their injury and their care. We summarised the literature on patients and system factors associated with time to surgery, and collated proposed mechanisms for the associations.
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Why is it important?
It is disputed whether the time a patient waits for surgery after hip fracture increases the risk of in-hospital death. This uncertainty matters as access to surgery following hip fracture may be underprioritised due to a lack of definitive evidence.
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This page is a summary of: Patient and system factors of time to surgery after hip fracture: a scoping review, BMJ Open, August 2017, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-016939.
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