Response to letter to the editor "Distal Femur Fractures Have a Higher Mortality Rate Compared to Hip Fractures Among the Elderly: Insights From the National Trauma Data Bank?"

Affiliations

¹ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung 204, and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: laurenttsai@gmail.com.
² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung 204, and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: ross_1222@hotmail.com.
³ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
⁴ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung 204, and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, United State.

Comment

Sung Huang Laurent Tsai et al. Injury. 2021 Oct.

. 2021 Oct;52(10):3176-3177.

doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2021.07.037. Epub 2021 Jul 29.

¹ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung 204, and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: laurenttsai@gmail.com.
² Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung 204, and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan. Electronic address: ross_1222@hotmail.com.
³ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and Rehabilitation Medicine, State University of New York, Downstate Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY, United States.
⁴ Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Keelung Branch, Keelung 204, and School of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Taoyuan 333, Taiwan.
⁵ Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, United States; Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, MD, United State.

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Comment on

Distal femur fractures have a higher mortality rate compared to hip fractures among the elderly: Insights from the National Trauma Data Bank.
Tsai SHL, Lin TY, Tischler EH, Hung KH, Chen CH, Osgood GM, Fu TS, Su CY. Tsai SHL, et al. Injury. 2021 Jul;52(7):1903-1907. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2021.04.023. Epub 2021 Apr 20. Injury. 2021. PMID: 33896612
Distal femur fractures have a higher mortality rate compared to hip fractures among the elderly: Are the insights from the national trauma data bank conclusive?
Choudhary S, Kumar P, Prabhakar S, Sharma S. Choudhary S, et al. Injury. 2021 Oct;52(10):3178. doi: 10.1016/j.injury.2021.07.007. Epub 2021 Jul 10. Injury. 2021. PMID: 34281689 No abstract available.