2014
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2014-005469
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Variation in access to community rehabilitation services and length of stay in hospital following a hip fracture: a cross-sectional study

Abstract: ObjectivesTo assess variation in access to and use of community rehabilitation services for patients with a hip fracture, and whether this affects length of stay in hospital.DesignCross-sectional study using administrative patient-level data from Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) and organisational survey data.SettingA regional health economy in South West England served by four acute National Health Service (NHS) hospital trusts and six former Primary Care Trusts (PCTs).Population1230 hip fracture patients tr… Show more

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“…These include the quality and scope of the data. We addressed both in a previous study comparing diagnostic and procedure coding in HES and NHFD, 23 confirming the accuracy of diagnostic coding of hip fracture, a major and also a well-defined injury. We limited the analysis strictly to care processes that can be accurately measured using administrative data (i.e.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 55%
“…These include the quality and scope of the data. We addressed both in a previous study comparing diagnostic and procedure coding in HES and NHFD, 23 confirming the accuracy of diagnostic coding of hip fracture, a major and also a well-defined injury. We limited the analysis strictly to care processes that can be accurately measured using administrative data (i.e.…”
Section: Discussionsupporting
confidence: 55%
“…Rules and standards of referral may be barriers to, or facilitators of, access to a service d) Location of service delivery with the subcategories "location characteristics" and "catchment area". It is important to understand the characteristics of the place where a rehabilitation service is located (28). Questions could be whether it is a rural or urban area, whether it is connected to public transport, and whether there are any barriers to access.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Although we cannot be sure that all transplant recipients were admitted to an English hospital after a fracture, the proportion admitted to other countries in the United Kingdom is likely to be small given that England accounts for over 85% of the population and we did not include patients transplanted in the other countries. Furthermore, the definitions of disease have not changed since 1995, and there is good concordance with hospital records and registry data regarding the incidence of hip fractures . We did not collect data on operative procedures performed after hip fracture, and this requires further investigation and will be the subject of future work.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%