The abstract describes a database study analyzing mortality after hospital admission for fractured neck of femur in the Oxford NHS health region, but reports no quantitative results.
Observational
This database study links inpatient statistics to death registration data to evaluate mortality after hospital admission for fractured neck of femur beyond just in-hospital mortality.
The death rate within one year of fractured neck of femur is typically reported as between 20% and 35%. 1 ]3 Performance indicators based on mortality after hospital admission for such fractures have been promoted. 4 The only measure of mortality in routine hospital statistics, however, is "in-hospital mortality"-death during the initial admission for the fracture. We analysed inpatient statistics that had been linked to death registration data in the former Oxford NHS health region (population 2.5 million) from 1994 to 1998.
M J Goldacre (2002) conducted an observational in Fractured neck of femur. Hospital admission for fractured neck of femur was evaluated on Mortality. The abstract describes a database study analyzing mortality after hospital admission for fractured neck of femur in the Oxford NHS health region, but reports no quantitative results.