Performance monitoring in hip fracture surgery-How big a database do we really need?

Injury

Volumn 41, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 374-376

  Edwards, G A D ^a   Metcalfe, A J ^a   Johansen, A ^a   O'Doherty, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF WALES   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Database; Hip fracture; Mortality rate; Performance monitoring; Power calculation; Statistical power

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DATA BASE; EUROPE; FEMALE; FRACTURE TREATMENT; HIP FRACTURE; HIP SURGERY; HUMAN; INFECTION RATE; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MONITORING; MORTALITY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND INFECTION; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; SAMPLE SIZE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CLINICAL COMPETENCE; DATABASES AS TOPIC; FEMALE; FRACTURE FIXATION; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); SAMPLE SIZE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 77649270123     PISSN: 00201383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.injury.2009.10.006     Document Type: Article

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