Epidemiology of Pelvic Fractures in Germany: Considerably High Incidence Rates among Older People

Silke Andrich, Burkhard Haastert, Elke Neuhaus, Kathrin Neidert, Werner Arend, Christian Ohmann, Jürgen Grebe, Andreas Vogt, Pascal Jungbluth, Grit Rösler, Joachim Windolf and Andrea Icks

PLOS ONE, 2015, vol. 10, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: Epidemiological data about pelvic fractures are limited. Until today, most studies only analyzed inpatient data. The purpose of this study was to estimate incidence rates of pelvic fractures in the German population aged 60 years or older, based on outpatient and inpatient data. We conducted a retrospective population-based observational study based on routine data from a large health insurance company in Germany. Age and sex-specific incidence rates of first fractures between 2008 and 2011 were calculated. We also standardized incidence rates with respect to age and sex in the German population. Multiple Poisson regression models were used to evaluate the association between the risk of first pelvic fracture as outcome and sex, age, calendar year and region as independent variables. The total number of patients with a first pelvic fracture corresponded to 8,041 and during the study period 5,978 insured persons needed inpatient treatment. Overall, the standardized incidence rate of all first pelvic fractures was 22.4 [95% CI 22.0–22.9] per 10,000 person-years, and the standardized incidence rate of inpatient treated fractures 16.5 [16.1–16.9]. Our adjusted regression analysis confirmed a significant sex (RR 2.38 [2.23–2.55], p

Date: 2015
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