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National-Hip-Fracture-Database-Annual-Report-2010-11

Hip-fracture-is-a-serious-and-costly-injury-affecting-mainly-older-people-and-is-more-common-in-women-It-usually-results-from-the-combination-of-weak-bone-structure-osteoporosis-and-a-fall-Around-76000-hip-fractures-occur-each-year-in-the-UK-as-a-whole-Although-there-is-good-evidence-on-best-practice-in-surgical-medical-and-rehabilitation-care-following-hip-fracture-such-care-and-its-outcomes-in-terms-of-return-home-and-also-of-mortality-continues-to-varyThe-National-Hip-Fracture-Database-NHFD-which-was-launched-in-2007aims-to-deliver-improvements-in-the-care-of-hip-fracture-patients-It-documents-case-mix-care-and-outcomes-of-hip-fracture-patients-in-England-Wales-and-Northern-Ireland-and-is-now-with-more-than-250000-cases-on-record-by-far-the-largest-hip-fracture-audit-in-the-worldIt-has-demonstrated-broad-improvements-at-local-and-national-level-in-patient-care-and-in-England-has-supported-the-Department-of-Healths-highly-successful-Best-Practice-Tariff-for-hip-fracture-care-The-work-of-the-NHFD-is-now-being-replicated-in-Ireland-with-the-recent-launch-of-Irish-Hip-Fracture-Database-and-similar-developments-are-in-hand-in-Australia-and-New-Zealand-Canada-and-Hong-KongThe-National-Hip-Fracture-Database-was-founded-as-a-collaboration-between-the-British-Orthopaedic-Association-and-the-British-Geriatrics-Society-It-was-developed-between-2004-and-2007-and-since-2009-it-has-received-central-funding-as-a-national-clinical-audit-via-the-Healthcare-Quality-Improvement-Partnership-HQIP-Since-April-2012-the-NHFD-has-continued-as-part-of-the-Falls-and-Fragility-Fracture-Audit-Programme-managed-on-behalf-of-HQIP-by-the-Royal-College-of-Physicians-LondonThe-audit-covers-England-Wales-Northern-Ireland-the-Isle-of-Man-and-the-Channel-Islands-however-data-files-only-refer-to-data-for-England-

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