Figures & data
Figure 1. CONSORT flow diagram for enrollment, allocation, follow-up, and analysis
Table 1. Baseline characteristics of 284 frail elderly hip fracture patients
Table 2. Intention to treat: physical ability scores 10 days after hip fracture surgery compared in a restrictive transfusion group with a liberal group stratified in residents from nursing homes and sheltered housing and analyzed with Wilcoxon rank-sum test
Figure 2. Intention to treat: repeated measurements on recovery from physical disabilities before fracture until postoperative days 10, 30 and 90, presented as median score with interquartile range, in residents from nursing homes and sheltered housing facilities.
Table 3. Hazards ratio of time to death within 30 and 90 days by intention-to-treat analysis and per-protocol analysis
Figure 3. Kaplan-Meier plots of 90-day survival rates after hip fracture in residents from nursing homes and sheltered housing facilities, by intention-to-treat analysis.
Table 4. Causes of death over 90 postoperative days in frail, elderly hip fracture patients
Figure 4 Mean hemoglobin concentrations (in g/dL) measured on days 3, 10, 17, 24, and 30 after hip fracture surgery (with 95% confidence intervals) according to blood transfusion strategy (liberal or restrictive).
