Abstract :Introduction: Osteoporotic hip fractures are important health problems in geriatric patients.
Several studies have evaluated the impact of hospitalization for hip fracture on the utilization of
health resources and costs for sanitary services with a significant increase of them in the last years.
The cost is not only related with hospitalization but also with long term complications, functional
disability, rehabilitation and drug consumption. The objective of this study is to describe the new
knowledge in the factors associated with the increase in the costs in patients with hip fracture.
Methods: The present review was carried out by conducting an electronic search in OVID (Medline
and Embase) on hip fracture, its costs and the factors associated with them. The search was limited
to publications in the last 5 years and in English, Portuguese and Spanish. A total of 86 articles were
obtained, of which 27 were finally selected.