Monitoring the performance of hip fracture treatment in Finland
| Autor: | Unto Häkkinen, P. Lüthje, Reijo Sund, Tiina Huusko, Merja Juntunen |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Hip fracture Episode of care Hip Fractures business.industry Monitoring system General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Outcome and Process Assessment Health Care Physical therapy medicine Hospital discharge Humans Female Registries business Finland Record linkage Regional differences |
| Zdroj: | Annals of Medicine. 43:S39-S46 |
| ISSN: | 1365-2060 0785-3890 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/07853890.2011.586360 |
| Popis: | This article in the supplement on the PERFormance, Effectiveness, and Costs of Treatment episodes (PERFECT)-project aims to measure the performance and quality of hip fracture treatment by analysing annual trends and regional differences in developed performance indicators.The PERFECT Hip Fracture Database contains all hip fracture patients identified from the Hospital Discharge Register in Finland since 1999. Follow-up data from several administrative registers were also linked to the database. Several risk-adjusted performance indicators were developed.In 2007 (compared with 1999), 4.1 percentage points fewer patients had died and 7.5 percentage points more patients were at home four months after fracture. The mean length of treatment had shortened from about 50 to about 45 days, and the mean costs of treatment per patient during the year following hip fracture had increased from about €18,000 to almost €20,000. There was extensive variation between the hospitals in the proportion of patients with an operative delay longer than two days and clear differences between hospital districts in several performance indicators.Outcomes of hip fracture treatment in Finland have been improved in recent years, but regional variation exists. Register-based data are useful for performance assessment of hip fracture treatment. |
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