Hip fracture care clinical care standard indicators: 3a-Evidence of orthogeriatric (or alternative physician or medical practitioner) management during an admitted patient’s hip fracture episode of care
Indicator Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Indicator |
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Indicator type: | Indicator |
Short name: | Indicator 3a-Evidence of orthogeriatric (or alternative physician or medical practitioner) management during an admitted patient’s hip fracture episode of care |
METEOR identifier: | 696434 |
Registration status: | Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
Description: | Evidence of orthogeriatric (or alternative physician or medical practitioner) management during an admitted patient’s hip fracture episode of care. |
Rationale: | Orthogeriatric care has been shown to reduce in hospital mortality, medical complications, length of stay, and mean time to surgery when compared with non-integrated care (Kammerlander et al. 2010). It may also reduce 30-day mortality (Zeltzer et al. 2014). |
Indicator set: | |
Outcome area: | Orthogeriatric model of care Health, Standard 12/09/2016 |
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