The Scottish Hip Fracture Audit
About the audit
Methodology including proforma and definitions
Background to Scottish Hip Fracture Audit
Methodology including proforma and definitions
Each hospital in Scotland contributes to the Scottish Hip Fracture Audit and where possible data is collected for all eligible patients. Where full completion is not possible, care is taken to ensure that the submitted data is not biased in any way and data completeness can be viewed via the management information available on the trauma and orthopaedic portal.
Data is collected by a locally employed 'Local Audit Coordinator', who is responsible for ensuring the accuracy and robustness of the data as well as raising awareness of results to support a continuous improvement process.
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Background to Scottish Hip Fracture Audit
The original Scottish Hip Fracture Audit ran from 1993 to 2008, during this time there were significant changes and improvements to the way hip fracture patients were managed across Scotland. From 2009, Boards were tasked with internal monitoring and the audit resource was diverted to other aspects of orthopaedic care.
The previous audit work is available here
In 2012 the hip fracture care pathway audit was developed as one of the five work strands in the Scottish Government led MSk & Orthopaedics Quality Drive
2012/13, a four month ‘snapshot’ audit of hip fracture patients.
2014, The Scottish Standards of Care for Hip Fracture Patients.
2014, one week in four ‘Rolling Audit’
2015/2016 a four month ‘snapshot’ audit of hip fracture patients
May 2016 Scottish Hip Fracture Audit name resurrected and data collection for all patients with a hip fracture commenced.