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Colles’ Fracture: An Epidemiological Nationwide Study in Italy from 2001 to 2016

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  • Umile Giuseppe Longo

    (Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, 200-00128 Roma, Italy
    Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 21-00128 Roma, Italy)

  • Sergio De Salvatore

    (Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, 200-00128 Roma, Italy
    Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 21-00128 Roma, Italy)

  • Alessandro Mazzola

    (Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, 200-00128 Roma, Italy
    Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 21-00128 Roma, Italy)

  • Giuseppe Salvatore

    (Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, 200-00128 Roma, Italy
    Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 21-00128 Roma, Italy)

  • Barbara Juliette Mera

    (School of Medicine, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine, Miami, FL 33136, USA)

  • Ilaria Piergentili

    (Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, 200-00128 Roma, Italy
    Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 21-00128 Roma, Italy)

  • Vincenzo Denaro

    (Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario Campus Bio-Medico, 200-00128 Roma, Italy
    Research Unit of Orthopaedic and Trauma Surgery, Department of Medicine and Surgery, Università Campus Bio-Medico di Roma, 21-00128 Roma, Italy)

Abstract

The present study aimed to evaluate the yearly number of Colles’ fractures in Italy from 2001 to 2016, based on official information found in hospitalization records. A secondary aim was to estimate the average length of hospitalization for patients with a Colles’ fracture. A tertiary aim was to investigate the distribution of the procedures generally performed for Colles’ fractures’ treatment in Italy. An analysis of the National Hospital Discharge records (SDO) maintained at the Italian Ministry of Health, concerning the 15 years of our study (from 2001 to 2016) was performed. Data are anonymous and include the patient’s age, sex, domicile, length of hospital stays (days), primary diagnoses and primary procedures. From 2001 to 2016, 120,932 procedures for Colles’ fracture were performed in Italy, which represented an incidence of 14.8 procedures for every 100,000 adult Italian inhabitants. The main number of surgeries was found in the 65–69- and 70–74-year age groups. In the present study, we review the epidemiology of Colles’ fractures in the Italian population, the burden of the disease on the national health care system (in terms of length of hospitalization) and the distribution of the main surgical procedures performed for the treatment of the disease.

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  • Umile Giuseppe Longo & Sergio De Salvatore & Alessandro Mazzola & Giuseppe Salvatore & Barbara Juliette Mera & Ilaria Piergentili & Vincenzo Denaro, 2023. "Colles’ Fracture: An Epidemiological Nationwide Study in Italy from 2001 to 2016," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 20(5), pages 1-10, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:20:y:2023:i:5:p:3956-:d:1077610
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    1. Laura Ruzzini & Sergio De Salvatore & Daniela Lamberti & Pierluigi Maglione & Ilaria Piergentili & Francesca Crea & Chiara Ossella & Pier Francesco Costici, 2021. "COVID-19 Changed the Incidence and the Pattern of Pediatric Traumas: A Single-Centre Study in a Pediatric Emergency Department," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 18(12), pages 1-11, June.
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