Abstract
The authors present an overview of basic demographic data obtained from the follow up of 248 patients treated for a proximal femur fracture at their clinic in 1977. The average age (77 years) and the predominance of patients older than 70 years (81 %) are comparable with the groups of patients presented in the foreign literature.
The group of patients accounts for approximately 2 % of the national group (data acquired from the Institute of Health Care Information and Statistics), the average age is by 5 years higher and the predominance of patients older than 70 years is more significant by approximately 10 %. Also the percentage of mortality in the course of hospitalization is in the authors' group higher (approximately by 4 %) as compared to the national group.
The risk of death is, however, high only in the group of patients older than 80 years and the conservatively treated patients. The comparison with similar dat in the group of patients treated for the same diagnosis at the authors' clinic in 1998 shows a significant increase of the number of treated patients (by 33 %), however, basic demographic data (average age and age distribution) has not changed.