The Australian and New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry (ANZHFR) released its 2021 Annual Report into the recovery process after a hip fracture, revealing a significant difference in care for patients across hospitals in the ANZ region. Approximately 20,000 hip fractures occur each year in Australia and New Zealand, with 5% of people dying in hospital because of this injury.
The report highlighted a huge difference between hospitals and their performance in relation to some aspects of care. Some hospitals are getting over 90% of patients out of bed and starting that recovery process the day after surgery whilst in other hospitals it is as low as 20-30%.
Report results show that there is work to be done to better understand why this variation exists between hospitals as getting people moving after a hip fracture is key to achieving what is important to patients – getting home and being independent.
This year, 86 hospitals contributed patient level data for the report and all 117 hospitals who were asked, provided facility level data to the report.
Read more:
- Australian & New Zealand Hip Fracture Registry ANNUAL REPORT 2O21. ANZHFR. September 2021 (PDF)