Socioeconomic variation and hip fracture
Research type
Research Study
Full title
The impact of geographic and socioeconomic variation on the incidence of hip fracture, and upon death and recovery after hip fracture
IRAS ID
181860
Contact name
Celia Gregson
Contact email
Sponsor organisation
University of Bristol
Clinicaltrials.gov Identifier
15781, FREC; Ref FFFAP/2015/001, NHFD scientific and publications committee
Duration of Study in the UK
4 years, 5 months, 31 days
Research summary
Each year 70,000 older adults break their hip in England and Wales; this will increase with our ageing population. A month after hip fracture between 3 and 17% have died and 25-95% have still not returned home. The number of hip fractures and their outcomes are variable across different parts of the country. We plan to determine how commonly hip fractures occur in different parts of the country.
Unfortunately socially deprived individuals may be more likely to break a hip and less likely to recover from it. We will examine how varying levels of deprivation across our country influences how people recover from hip fractures; for example, how frequently they die, how long they stay in hospital, how likely they are to walk and return to their own home (versus move to a care home), and how frequently they have to go back into hospital.
We will determine whether these inequalities are caused by differences in health before the fracture, or by housing circumstances, standards of hospital care or differences in recovery. This will help with the design of policies to reduce inequalities.
Our findings are designed to drive equal access to high quality services for all hip fracture patients
REC name
London - Bromley Research Ethics Committee
REC reference
15/LO/1056
Date of REC Opinion
4 Jun 2015
REC opinion
Favourable Opinion