Hip Fracture Patient Mobility Recovery Rates at 30 Days

Proportion data for patients aged 60 and over recovering to their previous mobility levels 30 days after a hip fracture hospital admission. The dataset is expressed as a percentage with 95% confidence intervals and is published by the Government Digital Service. The current version was updated in December 2016.

Use Cases

• Benchmark hospital performance on hip fracture care based on the 30-day mobility recovery metric.
• Analyze trends in geriatric patient recovery outcomes based on the reported proportion data.
• Model the impact of clinical interventions on recovery rates using the confidence interval data.
• Inform public health policy for elderly care using standardized clinical indicator data.

Strengths

• Data includes 95% confidence intervals, providing a measure of statistical reliability.
• Focuses on a specific, clinically relevant outcome metric for a well-defined patient population (age 60+).
• Published under the Open Government Licence, allowing for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified as no future updates are planned.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale analysis.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely aggregated from hospital administrative or clinical records.

Time Range

Specific time coverage is not stated in the provided metadata.

Freshness

Last known update was in December 2016, with no future updates planned.

Geography

Coverage is not explicitly stated but is likely related to the eu_open_data platform.