NHFD Annual Report 2022: Hip Fracture Care KPIs for 2020-2021

The 2022 National Hip Fracture Database annual report compares patient care in 2020 and 2021 against pre-pandemic standards. Its governance tools and tabulated data focus on six Key Performance Indicators for hip fracture treatment. This dataset, published under a CC-BY-4.0 license by the Government Digital Service, is available in Excel and CSV formats.

Use Cases

• Benchmark hospital performance based on the six Key Performance Indicators described in the report.
• Identify areas for clinical improvement using the Quarterly Governance Tool referenced in the description.
• Analyze changes in care pathways before and during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the 2020-2021 comparison.
• Study innovations in patient care metrics, including new KPIs for the initial and final stages of treatment mentioned in the description.

Strengths

• Report encompasses the whole of 2020 and 2021, providing a two-year comparison period.
• Focuses on six defined Key Performance Indicators for structured analysis.
• Includes governance tools with links to graphs and tabulated data as mentioned in the description.

Limitations

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

Provenance

Source

National Hip Fracture Database (NHFD), aggregated by the Government Digital Service on eu_open_data.

Collection Method

Clinical audit and database reporting from participating hospitals.

Time Range

2020 to 2021

Freshness

Report is from 2022, covering data up to 2021.

Geography

Likely United Kingdom (inferred from 'National' and Government Digital Service).