Abstract:[Objective] To explore the risk factors of death after surgical treatment for hip fractures in the elderly. [Methods] A retro- spective study was conducted on 177 elderly patients who received surgical treatment for hip fractures in our hospital from January 2017 to January 2019. The general data, involving age, gender, clinical examination, activity of daily living (ADL) score and survival state were re- corded. Based on whether the patient died in 2 years, the patients was divided into two groups. Univariate comparison of the two groups and Cox survival regression were conducted to search the risk factors related to death. [Results] Among 177 patients, 147 cases were completely followed up, whereas 30 cases were lost to follow-up, accounted for 16.95%, in a mean follow-up period of (18.59±7.70) months. Of them, 123 patients survived at 1 year after operation with survival rate of 83.67%, and 109 patients survived at 2 years after operation with the sur- vival rate of 74.15%. In term of death causes of the 38 patients, pulmonary infection was the main cause, accounting for 44.74%, followed by cardiac failure, accounting for 31.58%. As results of univariate comparison, the patients in the death group were significantly older, had more complicated underlying diseases, lower proportion of family care, worse preoperative ADL score and lower preoperative hemoglobin and albumin than those of the survival group, which were statistically significant (P<0.05) . In term of Cox survival regression, the family care (OR=0.382, P=0.008) , preoperative ADL score (OR=0.982, P=0.023) , preoperative hemoglobin (OR=0.978, P=0.004) and preopera- tive albumin (OR=0.845, P<0.001) were protective factors, whereas the preoperative number of underlying diseases (OR=3.926, P=0.002) was a risk factor for death after surgical treatment for hip fractures in the elderly. [Conclusion] Family care, high preoperative ADL score, and high preoperative hemoglobin and albumin are the protective factors, while the number of underlying diseases is a risk factor for death after surgical treatment of hip fractures in the elderly.