The Scottish Hip Fracture Audit

Research

The Scottish Hip Fracture Audit (SHFA) welcomes opportunities to collaborate with colleagues to further the understanding of hip fracture and developments in care or treatment options using audit data.

If you are interested in using Hip Fracture data for research purposes, please access the:

Please return completed forms to the Scottish National Audit Programme mailbox phs.snap@phs.scot for consideration.

We are happy to provide appropriate colleagues in each hospital with more detailed Management Information data from the audit to help manage patients at your site. Please contact phs.mskaudit@phs.scot in the first instance.

SHFA Steering Group Publications

  • Hall, A., Clement, N., IMPACT Revisited Group, MacLullich, A., White, T. & Duckworth, A. COVID-19 during the index hospital admission confers a 'double-hit' effect on hip fracture patients and is associated with a two-fold increase in 1-year mortality risk. Aug 2022, Musculoskeletal Care. Volume 20, Issue 3, pp 705-717. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/msc.1674 - external link - (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Antony Johansen, Cristina Ojeda-Thies, Arwel T. Poacher, Andrew J. Hall, Louise Brent, Emer C. Ahern, Matt L. Costa, and on behalf of the Global Fragility Fracture Network Hip Fracture Audit Special Interest Group. Developing a minimum common dataset for hip fracture audit to help countries set up national audits that can support international comparisons. 2022, The Bone & Joint Journal , Vol. 104b No. 6, pp. 721-728. https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/0301-620X.104B6.BJJ-2022-0080.R1 - external link - (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Andrew J. Hall, Nicholas D. Clement, Alasdair M.J. MacLullich, Cristina Ojeda-Thies, Christine Hoefer, Louise Brent, Timothy O. White and Andrew D. Duckworth. IMPACT of COVID-19 on hip fracture services: A global survey by the International Multicentre Project Auditing COVID-19 in Trauma & Orthopaedics. 2021, The Surgeon, pp. 237-240. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34103268/ - external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Andrew J. Hall, Nick D. Clement, Alasdair M. J. MacLullich, A. Hamish R. W. Simpson, Tim O. White, Andrew D. Duckworth. The IMPACT of COVID-19 on trauma & orthopaedic surgery provides lessons for future communicable disease outbreaks. 2021, Bone & Joint Research, Vol. 11 No 6, pp. 242-245. https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/2046-3758.116.BJR-2022-0060 - external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Andrew J. Hall, Nick D. Clement, Alasdair M. J. MacLullich, A. H. R. W. Simpson, Antony Johansen, Tim O. White, and Andrew D. Duckworth. The delivery of an emergency audit response to a communicable disease outbreak can inform future orthopaedic investigations and clinical practice. 2022, Bone & Joint Research, Vol 11, No. 6. pp. 346-348. https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/full/10.1302/2046-3758.116.BJR-2022-0061 - external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Andrew J. Hall, IMPACT-Global Group, et. al. IMPACT-Global Hip Fracture Audit: Nosocomial infection, risk prediction and prognostication, minimum reporting standards and global collaborative audit: Lessons from an international multicentre study of 7,090 patients conducted in 14 nations during the COVID-19 pandemic. 2022, The Surgeon. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.surge.2022.02.009 external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • A. J. Hall, A. D. Duckworth, A. M. J. MacLullich, L. Farrow, T. O. White, and N. D. Clement. Meta-audit: a novel approach to healthcare improvement through the integration of clinical audit and health data science techniques. 2021, Bone & Joint, Vol. 10 No 6., pp. 3-5. https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/abs/10.1302/2048-0105.106.360913 - external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Luke Farrow, Andrew J. Hall, Andrew D. Ablett, Antony Johansen, and Phyo K. Myint. The influence of hospital-level variables on hip fracture outcomes. 2021, The Bone & Joint Journal, pp. 1627-1632. https://online.boneandjoint.org.uk/doi/abs/10.1302/0301-620X.103B10.BJJ-2021-0461.R1?journalCode=bjj - external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Hall, Andrew J. Scotland makes an IMPACT on global clinical audit. Scottish Hip Fracture Audit Reports. Scottish Hip Fracture Audit. [Online] August 2021. www.shfa.scot.nhs.uk/Reports/_docs/2021/shfa-annual-report-2021-scotland-makes-an-impact.pdf
  • Luke Farrow, Andrew Hall, Lorna Aucott, et. al. Does quality of care in hip fracture vary by day of admission? Arch Osteoporos 15, 52 (2020). doi.org/10.1007/s11657-020-00725-4 - external link (accessed 27 September 2022)
  • Luke Farrow, Andrew Hall, Lorna Aucott, Rik Smith, Graeme Holt, Phyo Myint. Does quality of care in hip fracture vary by day of admission? Archives of Osteoporosis. 2020 Dec;15(1):1-9. link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11657-020-00725-4 - external link (Accessed 10 August 2022)
  • Luke Farrow, Andrew Hall, et. al. Quality of Care in Hip Fracture Patients: The Relationship Between Adherence to National Standards and Improved Outcomes. The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery: May 2, 2018 - Volume 100 - Issue 9 - p 751-757 doi: 10.2106/JBJS.17.00884. journals.lww.com (Accessed 10 August 2022) (external link)