Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard: 6a-Proportion of admitted patients with a hip fracture who received bone protection medicine while in hospital or a prescription prior to separation from hospital
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Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | 6a-Proportion of admitted patients with a hip fracture who received bone protection medicine while in hospital or a prescription prior to separation from hospital |
METEOR identifier: | 780936 |
Registration status: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care, Standard 10/09/2023 |
Description: | Proportion of patients with a hip fracture who received bone protection medicine while in hospital or a prescription for bone protection medicine prior to separation from hospital. |
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Collection and usage attributes | |
Population group age from: | 50 years or older |
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Computation description: | For the numerator, 'bone protection medicine' includes (ANZHFR Steering Group, 2022):
'Calcium or vitamin D' includes Calcitriol, calcium and vitamin D or Alpha-calcidol (or one alpha). 'Bisphosphonates' includes: Etidronate, Alendronate, Risedronate, Ibandronate, Zoledronate, Pamidronate. Both the numerator and the denominator exclude episodes where Episode of admitted patient care—separation mode, code N=8 Died. Presented as a percentage. |
Computation: | (Numerator ÷ denominator) x 100 |
Numerator: | Number of admitted patients with a hip fracture who received bone protection medicine while in hospital or a prescription for bone protection medicine prior to separation from hospital. |
Denominator: | Number of admitted patients with a hip fracture. |
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Representation class: | Percentage |
Data type: | Real |
Unit of measure: | Service event |
Format: | N[NN] |
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Reporting requirements: | Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard 2023 |
Organisation responsible for providing data: | Health Service Organisations |
Accountability: | Health Service Organisations |
Release date: | 19/06/2015 |
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Submitting organisation: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care |
Reference documents: | Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Care. Hip Fracture Clinical Care Standard. Sydney: ACSQHC; 2023. Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry. Data Dictionary Version 15. ANZHFR; 2022. |
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