Care Pathways for Benchmarking on Fragile Hip Fractures Rapid Recovery

Care Pathways for Benchmarking on Fragile Hip Fractures Rapid Recovery

The aim of this project is to build an international community of centers of excellence in the care for Fragile Hip Fracture Rapid Recovery patients. These centers of excellence will benchmark and share their expertise and experiences based on clinical and managerial data. In project is designed in five different phase:

Phase 1: literature review: identifying relevant key interventions and indicators Phase 2: expert panel: expert panel for teams, management and policy makers Phase 3: data collection: collection managerial data through retrospective patient record analysis on clinical indicators Phase 4: statistical data analysis: data input, validation and statistical analysis Phase 5: feedback and knowledge sharing: feedback report with anonymous benchmarking and knowledge sharing of the results.

Inclusion Criteria:

• Trauma related non-elective admission for hip fracture;
• Minimum age of 65 years;
• The following hip fractures are included: Femoral neck, femoral head, trochanteric and subtrochanteric fractures;
• Discharged or deceased before May 30th of 2019

Exclusion Criteria:

• Hip fracture is not the main reason for admission to emergency room;
• Additional ipsilateral fractures;
• Hip fracture resulting from in-hospital fall that occurred in the hospital where the patient receives hip fracture care.