Nijmeijer et al reported the Almelo Hip Fracture Score 90 for evaluating a patient >= 90 years of age with a hip fracture. The authors are from the Dutch Hip Fracture Audit Taskforce Indicators Group.
Patient selection: hip fracture in adult >= 90 years of age
Outcome: early mortality (30-day)
Parameters:
(1) age in years
(2) gender
(3) dementia
(4) residence
(5) ASA performance
(6) hemoglobin in mmol/L on admission to hospital
Parameter
Finding
Beta-Coefficient
age in years
0.085 * (age)
gender
male
0
female
-0.906
dementia
no
0
yes
0.586
residence
nursing home
0.593
other
0
ASA performance
ASA 0 or 1
0
ASA 3
0.836
ASA 4
1.704
hemoglobin
-0.219 * (hemoglobin)
value of X =
= SUM(points for all of the parameters) - 8.872
risk of early mortality =
= 1 / (1 + EXP((-1) * X))
Performance:
• The area under the ROC curve is 0.72.
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