O’Hara NN, et al. - By linking health and census data, researchers investigated how the household income of non-elderly Canadian patients is influenced by a femoral neck fracture. They included 391 femoral neck fracture patients (aged 18 to 50) who underwent internal fixation for a femoral neck fracture in the Canadian Province of British Columbia during the years 2006 to 2012. They noted a decline of ≥2 deciles in the household income in more than a quarter of these cases following the injury. A 2 decile decline in income translates to a 32-69% absolute reduction in annual income depending on the pre-injury income decile of the patient. They noted 38% higher likelihood of experiencing ≥2 deciles of income decline among patients with a pre-injury household income in the top 4 income deciles.