Incidence rates and treatment of the transcervical fracture of the neck of femur in Italy: is total hip arthroplasty an increasingly preferred approach? A population study on trends between 2001 and 2023 based on 1,120,770 hospital discharge records
Over the past two decades, Italy experienced declining age-adjusted incidence rates of TFNF despite persistent crude numbers (approximately 50,000 cases per year) owing to demographic aging. Partial hip arthroplasty (PHA) remained the preferred treatment, while total hip arthroplasty (THA) went from being the least used to the second-most performed treatment through the 23 observed years. Level of evidence level 1, population-based study.
Authors
- Gabriele Tucci
- Enrico Ciminello (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6621-5480)
- G Cazzato (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3671-6989)
- Stefania Ceccarelli (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3599-3538)
- Emilio Romanini (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3686-3137)
- Filippo Boniforti
- Tiziana Falcone (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9045-1566)
- Adriano Cuccu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7539-1868)
- Paola Ciccarelli
- Luca Carpanese
- Marina Torre
- Michele Venosa
Institutions
- National Institute of Health (AM)
- Fondazione Istituto G. Giglio di Cefalù (IT)
- Associazione Italiana Arbitri (IT)
- Ospedale Eugenio Morelli (IT)
- Azienda Sanitaria Locale Roma 3 (IT)
- Sapienza University of Rome (IT)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Orthopaedics and Traumatology
- Published
- 2026-03-14
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s10195-026-00912-y
- Primary Topic
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00