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Table 1 Summary table of study characteristics

From: A scoping review comparing two common surgical approaches to the hip for hemiarthroplasty

Author Year

Study Type

Follow-Up

Outcomes (not inc dislocation)

Dislocation

Recommendation

Paton and Hirst 1989 [27]

UK

Observational

Min 6 months

Max 4 years

–

PA: 8/93 (8.6%)

DLA: 2/78 (2.6%)

(p < 0.08)

DLA

Keene and Parker 1993 [28]

UK

Observational

Up to 1 year

Operation duration

Operative blood loss

Perioperative fracture

Subsequent fracture

Superficial infection

Deep infection

Deep vein thrombosis

Pulmonary embolism

Sciatic nerve palsy

Mortality

Length of stay

PA: 10/229 (4.3%)

DLA: 5/302 (1.7%)

(P = 0.04)

Surgeon choice

Unwin and Thomas 1994 [16]

UK

Observational

3 months

–

PA: 149/1656 (9.0%)

DLA: 41/1250 (3.3%)

(p > 0.001)

DLA

Pajarinen et al. 2003 [29]

Finland

Observational

6 months

–

PA: 14/86 (16.3%)

DLA: 8/252 (3.2%)

OR 5.9 CI:2.4–15

DLA

Enocson et al. 2008 [8]

Sweden

Observational

0–10 years Median = 2.3 years

–

PA: 17/129 (13%)

PAa: 15/176 (8.5%)

LA: 13/431 (3%)

p < 0.001

DLA

Ninh et al. 2009 [33]

US

Observational

F-up 1: 6 weeks

F-up 2: 1 year

–

PA: 9/139 (6.5%)

DLA: 2/35 (5.7%)

F-up 1: p = 0.069

F-up 2: p = 0.82

No recommendation

Biber et al. 2012 [32]

Germany

Observational

Unclear

Early infection

Early haematoma

Early seroma

Perioperative fracture

PAa: 3.9%

DLA: 0.5%

p = 0.01

No recommendation

Rogmark et al. 2014 [4]

Sweden & Norway

Observational

Mean 2.7 years (SD(1.7))

Reoperation due to:

Dislocation

Infection

Fracture

Erosion and other

Total sample: b443/33205

PA Hazard Ratio 2.2 (1.8–2.6)

DLA

Abram and Murray 2015 [10]

UK

Observational

Up to 5 years 10 months

Infection

Return home on discharge

Mortality 30 day and 1 Year

PAa: 7/54 (13.0%)

DLA: 16/753 (2.15)

p < 0.001

DLA

Parker 2015 [34]

UK

Randomised Controlled Trial

8 weeks

3 Months

6 Months

9 Months

12 Months

Pain

Mobility

Mortality

Surgery length

Patients transfused

Units blood transfused

Difficulty level

Small/Large operative fracture

Wound haematoma

Wound infection (superficial and deep)

Sciatic nerve palsy

Later fracture around implant

Re-operation

General complications

PAa: 1/108 (0.9%)

DLA: 2/108 (1.9%)

p = 1.00

No recommendation

Leonardsson et al. 2016 [30]

Sweden

Observational

1 year

Reoperation due to:

-Infection

-Fracture

-Acetabular erosion

Other

Health related quality of life (patient reported)

Pain (patient reported)

Satisfaction (patient reported)

bPA: 20/978 (2%)

bDLA: 10/1140 (0.9%)

p = 0.02

DLA

Kristensen et al. 2017 [18]

Norway

Observational

4 months

12 months

36 months

Pain (patient reported)

Satisfaction (patient reported)

Quality of life (patient reported)

Prosthesis survival

–

No recommendation

Svenøy et al. 2017 [31]

Norway

Observational

1 year

Recurrent dislocation

Infection (surgical site)

Perioperative fracture

Mortality (30 day and 1 year)

PAa: 15/186 (8%)

DLA: 4/397 (1%)

DLA

  1. aposterior repair explicitly noted by study authors
  2. bfigures only relate to dislocations requiring open reduction – no figures for dislocations treated by closed reduction provided
  3. Figures in bold indicate a statistically significant difference in disocation rate between surgical approaches in individual studies