“…These include patient demographics such as increased age, 15 male gender, 31 and decreased bone mineral density; 22,44 or fracture characteristics such as the presence of comminution [31][32][33] or fracture displacement 12,20,38 and quality of reduction. 11,12,[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]41 (Table 4). In the present study, increasing age, displaced fractures, and quality of reduction were associated with an increased relative risk of failure.…”