Evaluating improvements in hospital care for hip fracture patients
Research type
Research Study
Full title
Evaluating improvements in hospital care for hip fracture patients
IRAS ID
153647
Contact name
Jenny Neuburger
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Duration of Study in the UK
3 years, 0 months, 1 days
Research summary
Hip fracture is the commonest serious injury of older people. A major UK clinical audit has prompted various care improvements, and created a 250,000-case database - the National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD) - that can be used to assess their effectiveness. This research will assess the impact of service improvements on patient outcomes following hip fracture, including survival rates, length of stay in the NHS and rates of return to independent living. To do this, it will be necessary to link the clinical audit database (the NHFD) to administrative data from the Hospital Episode Statistics and to Office for National Statistics (ONS) mortality data. This research will contribute robust evidence on what works in improving hip fracture care, together with techniques that might be applied more widely in evaluation of care improvements in the NHS.
REC name
London - Central Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
14/LO/1871
Date of REC Opinion
3 Nov 2014
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion