Quality improvement for patients with hip fracture: Experience from a multi-site audit

Quality and Safety in Health Care

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 239-245

  Freeman, C ^a   Todd, Cris ^a,b   Camilleri Ferrante, C ^c   Laxton, C ^d   Murrell, P ^b   Palmer, C R ^b   Parker, M ^e   Payne, R ^f   Rushton, N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^d River Lodge Surgery   (United Kingdom)

^e PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^f NORFOLK AND NORWICH UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; DECUBITUS; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MOBILIZATION; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PATIENT CARE; PNEUMONIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; QUALITY CONTROL; STANDARD; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THROMBOSIS PREVENTION; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 0036753476     PISSN: 09638172     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/qhc.11.3.239     Document Type: Article

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