Construction and validation of a predictive model for the risk of prolonged preoperative waiting time in patients with intertrochanteric fractures
Rui Gong, Xi-min Jin, Lian-you Xu, Zhi-meng Zhang, Dao-tong Yuan, Wen-peng Xie, Yong-kui Zhang · 2025
Read Construction and validation of a predictive model for the risk of prolonged preoperative waiting time in patients with intertrochanteric fractures by Rui Gong, Xi-min Jin, Lian-you Xu, Zhi-meng Zhang, Dao-tong Yuan, Wen-peng Xie, Yong-kui Zhang (2025) in the Tower of Babel, a free online library of public-domain works preserved in clean, searchable text. No sign-up. The full text is served as a plain-text file at a predictable URL, where text is present: https://antarctic-labs.com/tower-of-babel/pmc-11782220.txt.
Description
Hip fracture patients who wait too long for surgery fare worse, and Rui Gong and six co-authors built a predictor of the wait in a 2024 paper. They mined records of 1,116 patients with intertrochanteric fractures treated at one Chinese hospital over seven years. Delay meant passing 48 hours before the operation.
A logistic model trained on 728 patients surfaced five predictors: age, sex, a leg-vein clot, the injury's location, and blood markers. Drawn as a nomogram, a point-scoring chart, the model separated long waiters from prompt ones with fair accuracy. The authors offer the chart for triage: flag the likely delayers on arrival, and the scheduling fixes can start before the clock becomes a complication.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Rui Gong, Xi-min Jin, Lian-you Xu, Zhi-meng Zhang, Dao-tong Yuan, Wen-peng Xie, Yong-kui Zhang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 24 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |