The Impact of a National Clinician-led Audit Initiative on Care and Mortality after Hip Fracture in England

Medical Care

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 686-691

  Neuburger, Jenny ^a,b   Currie, Colin ^c   Wakeman, Robert ^d   Tsang, Carmen ^a,b   Plant, Fay ^e   De Stavola, Bianca ^a   Cromwell, David A ^a,b   Van Der Meulen, Jan ^a,b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b Royal College of Surgens of England   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d BASILDON HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^e ROYAL NATIONAL ORTHOPAEDIC HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

administrative hospital data; clinician led audit; English National Health Service; hip fracture; quality improvement

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FRACTURE EXTERNAL FIXATION; FRACTURE REDUCTION; GOOD CLINICAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HIP FRACTURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; ICD-10; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT; TREND STUDY; UNITED KINGDOM; CLINICAL PRACTICE; HIP FRACTURES; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NATIONAL HEALTH SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRENDS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ENGLAND; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HIP FRACTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MEDICAL AUDIT; MIDDLE AGED; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); POISSON DISTRIBUTION; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRACTICE PATTERNS, PHYSICIANS'; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATE MEDICINE;

EID: 84937855136     PISSN: 00257079     EISSN: 15371948     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MLR.0000000000000383     Document Type: Article

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