Inter-hospital variations in length of hospital stay following hip fracture

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To investigate differences in length of hospital stay after hip fracture. prospective survey of a consecutive series of patients admitted with an acute hip fracture and followed-up for 90 days after admission. eight hospitals in the East Anglian region. 580 patients admitted with a hip fracture. mortality, length of hospital stay, place of discharge and transfer of patients between hospitals. there was a significant difference in the median lengths of hospital stay between centres (range 13–28 days). A prolonged hospital stay was associated with increased age, decreased activities of daily living score and delay from surgery to mobilization. Hospitals which had a policy of transferring patients to other wards prior to discharge tended to have a longer length of hospital stay. large differences in the duration of inpatient stay exist between hospitals. Centres which transferred a high proportion of patients before discharge had a longer length of stay.

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