Physiological and Operative Severity Score for the enUmeration of Mortality and Morbidity (POSSUM) System for Outcome Prediction in Elderly Patients Submitted to Hip Fracture Emergency Surgery

Purpose: Evaluate the performance POSSUM system (POSSUM, P-POSSUM and Orthopedic-POSSUM) on predicting 30-day morbimortality in elderly patients undergoing emergent hip fracture surgery. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was conducted in all elderly patients (≥65 years-old) admitted, at a University Hospital, with hip fracture, that underwent surgery during one year. From 408 patients selected, 328 were excluded for not being submitted to emergency surgery.