“…Various factors (eg, age [9,38], gender [10,13,38], ASA rating [9,17], dementia [4], and type of fracture [28,29]) reportedly affect ambulatory status and mortality of elderly patients with hip fractures, but little is known of any differences in general characteristics between patients with and without hemiplegia who had hip fractures, factors predicting recovery of prefracture ambulatory status, and mortality of patients with hemiplegia after stroke who experienced hip fractures.…”