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NHFD 2015 annual report supplement - An analysis of 30-day mortality in 2014



Every hospital in England, Wales and Northern Ireland that provides acute hip fracture care is actively participating in this audit, and in September 2015 our annual report described the process, performance and outcome of care in these hospitals. Each year this report includes an analysis of mortality – casemix adjusted to ensure that reported mortality figures are appropriate to the demographics of the local patient population.

Some hospitals participating in the NHFD do not actively follow-up patients after discharge, so we use validated, third-party, data of death from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) to calculate 30-day mortality.

This year the NHFD, along with other national clinical audits, experienced delays in access to ONS data. Consequently, we were unable to include mortality results in our annual report as in previous years. ONS date of death data were finally available in November 2015, which enabled this analysis.

This report complements the descriptions of performance and patient outcomes in our 2015 annual report.

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