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In the largest cohort to date, we evaluated factors associated with lower in-hospital mortality following operative management among adults with sacral fractures.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We performed a retrospective cohort study using the National Trauma Data Bank (2017\u20132022). Adults with sacral fractures were identified by ICD-10-CM codes. We balanced baseline differences using overlap weighting, stabilized inverse probability weighting, and 1:1 propensity score matching, confirmed by multivariable logistic regression, with prespecified subgroup and sensitivity analyses.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Among 105,649 adults with sacral fractures, median age was 57\u00a0years, 54.3% were female, and in-hospital mortality was 5.4%. Overall, 22.7% underwent operative management. Crude mortality was lower in operative than nonoperative patients (2.9% vs. 6.2%, p&lt;0.001). After overlap weighting, surgery remained associated with lower mortality (OR 0.37), with consistent findings across matched (OR 0.33), stabilized weighting (OR 0.39), and multivariable analyses (aOR 0.23; all p&lt;0.001). The association persisted across nine sensitivity analyses (aOR range 0.19\u20130.25). Benefit was present across all fracture zones, with the greatest effect in Zone III (aOR 0.14 vs. Zone I aOR 0.28, Zone II aOR 0.20). Older adults also benefited (aOR 0.32). Operative use increased modestly from 21.2% to 23.0% over the study period.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Operative management was associated with lower in-hospital mortality in the largest sacral fracture cohort studied to date. Fewer than one in four patients underwent surgery, supporting reassessment of operative thresholds, particularly for higher-zone injuries, through prospective validation.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1007\/s43390-026-01551-3","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]],"date-time":"2026-09-14T16:06:28Z","timestamp":1789401988000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/springer_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Operative management of traumatic sacral fractures and in-hospital mortality: a national analysis"],"prefix":"10.1007","author":[{"given":"Samer","family":"Salman","sequence":"first","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8611-6711","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Rohan","family":"Phadke","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nathan J.","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"297","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,14]]},"reference":[{"issue":"3","key":"1551_CR1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"366","DOI":"10.1016\/j.injury.2020.11.015","volume":"52","author":"S Gutierrez-Gomez","year":"2021","unstructured":"Gutierrez-Gomez S, Wahl L, Blecher R et al (2021) Sacral fractures: an updated and comprehensive review. 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