Hip Fracture Patient Mobility Recovery Rates at 120 Days

A clinical indicator dataset tracking the proportion of patients aged 60 and over who recover to their previous mobility levels 120 days after a hip fracture. The data is expressed as a percentage with 95% confidence intervals. It is provided by the Government Digital Service and was last updated in December 2016.

Use Cases

• Benchmark hospital performance based on patient recovery rates mentioned in the description.
• Model trends in geriatric rehabilitation outcomes based on the reported proportion metric.
• Inform public health policy for aging populations based on the clinical indicator data.

Strengths

• Data includes 95% confidence intervals for the reported proportions.
• Focuses on a specific patient cohort (age 60 and over) and a standardized time point (120 days).

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from hospital admissions and follow-up records.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

Current version is from December 2016, with a next version due in December 2017.

Geography

Spatial coverage is not specified, but the platform (eu_open_data) suggests a European context.