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Objective: To find out demographics, mechanism of injury and bones involved so as to suggest preventive measures in geriatric population
Study design Retrospective case series
Place and Duration of study: Department of Orthopaedics and Spine Centre, Ghurki Trust Teaching Hospital Lahore, from January 2015 to December 2015
Methodology: This study included all patients of age greater than 50 year of either sex admitted through emergency or OPD having any type fracture. The data were taken from hospital database and included clinical, epidemiological and radiological records. The results were analyzed using SPSS version 17.0
Results: A total of 1215 patients were included in the study. Of these 880 [72.4%] were males and 335 [27.6%] females. Male to females ratio were 1.38:1 with mean age of 56.21 +/- 12.603 year. Most of them were between 51-60 year [n=629 - 51.77%]. Femoral fractures were the most common and the main mechanism of injury were fall followed by road traffic accidents
Conclusions: Femoral neck fractures were the most common fractures and mostly females were involved. Fall was the main mechanism of injury