The development of a comprehensive multidisciplinary care pathway for patients with a hip fracture: design and results of a clinical trial

Table 1 Baseline characteristics of the intervention and control group

	Intervention group	Control group	p
Number	256	145	n.a.
Women (%)	174 (68)	104 (72)	0.84^b
Mean age, years (SD)	78 (9)	80 (10)	0.22^a
Living in nursing home (%)	27 (11)	15 (10)	0.87^b
Median ASA classification (IQR)	3 (2–3)	3 (2–3)	0.52^b
Fracture type (%)
Femoral neck	142 (55)	83 (57)	0.57^b
Trochanteric	114 (45)	62 (43)

Abbreviations: n.a: not applicable; SD: standard deviatiation; IQR: interquartile range.
^aindependent sample t-test; ^bChi-squared test (Phi test).