Exploring perceptions about the quality of life after non-operative management of proximal femoral fractures among peers of deceased frail elderly

Conditions: Hip fracture

Registration Number: NL-OMON22621

Lead Sponsor: ot applicable

Brief Summary: Not available

Detailed Description: Not available

Recruitment & Eligibility

Status: Pending

Sex: Not specified

Target Recruitment: 100

Inclusion Criteria

Relatives of deceased patients are eligible to participate if their deceased family member was i) older than 70 years at the time of trauma, ii) Institutionalized at the time of trauma and iii) had a proximal femoral fracture that was conservatively treated in our hospital between January 2011 and June 2019.

Exclusion Criteria

Relatives of deceased patients are excluded from this study if their deceased family member had a periprosthetic fracture, a pathological fracture or underlying metastatic oncological disease. Relatives of deceased patients are also excluded from this study if they are not willing to give written informed consent.

Study & Design

Study Type: Observational non invasive

Study Design: Not specified

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
For the ordinal-level questions we will (descriptively) present the medians and interquartile ranges. The numeric rating scale items will be presented using means and standard deviations. <br><br>Numeric Rating Scale (NRS) for satisfaction regarding quality of life as perceived by relative:<br>The data will be presented as a mean score and standard deviations.<br>All analyses will be performed using SPPS 24.0 (SPSS Inc. Chicago, IL).<br>

Secondary Outcome Measures