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TUESDAY, Sept. 15, 2015 (HealthDay News) -- People who need surgery for a broken hip face a higher risk of serious complications and death than those who undergo an elective hip replacement -- and the disparity is not explained by fracture sufferers' older age or poorer health, a new study finds.
Doctors have long known that hip-fracture surgery is a riskier procedure than elective hip replacements, which are done to treat severe arthritis.
"Everyone has recognized that hip-fracture patients are having bad outcomes," said Dr. P.J. Devereaux, the senior researcher on the new study and a professor at McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.
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