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Table 1 Characteristics of N = 165,350 patients discharged following hip fracture in England and Wales (2016–2019) by outcome

From: Patients’ recovery of mobility and return to original residence after hip fracture are associated with multiple modifiable components of hospital service organisation: the REDUCE record-linkage cohort study in England and Wales

 

Post-fracture outcomes recorded

 
 

Residence at discharge

Residence at 120 days

Mobility at 120 days

N patients

163,230

58,344

56,959

 N hospital

172

143

140

 

Return to original residence or better

Not returned to original residence

Return to original residence or better

Not returned to original residence

Same/

improved mobility

Worse mobility

Pre-fracture characteristics

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

N

%

Total

 

117,384

72

45,846

28

49,308

85

9,036

15

25,589

45

31,370

55

Age (years)

 

Mean = 81.5, SD = 8.8

Mean = 84.8, SD = 7.6

Mean = 81.5, SD = 8.5

Mean = 85.4, SD = 7.6

Mean = 81.5, SD = 8.9

Mean = 82.5, SD = 8.1

Age (years)

60–69

13,423

86

2,045

13

5,200

94

341

6

2,975

55

2,401

45

 

70–79

30,960

79

7,889

20

13,054

90

1,429

10

6,550

46

7,609

54

 

80–89

50,790

68

22,879

31

22,455

84

4,365

16

11,081

42

15,128

58

 

90+

22,211

62

13,033

36

8,599

75

2,901

25

4,983

44

6,232

56

Sex

Female

84,705

71

32,548

27

36,136

85

6,491

15

18,918

45

22,719

55

ASA grade*

I & II

35,339

80

8,685

20

15,907

93

1,259

7

7,400

44

9,372

56

 

III

65,367

68

28,912

30

27,611

82

5,945

18

14,575

44

18,195

56

 

IV & V

16,678

66

8,249

33

5,790

76

1,832

24

3,614

49

3,803

51

Hip fracture type

Intracapsular

72,560

74

24,075

25

29,970

86

4,916

14

16,128

47

17,977

53

 

Inter, subtrochanteric or other

44,824

66

21,771

32

19,338

82

4,120

18

9,461

41

13,393

59

Pre-fracture residence

Own home/sheltered housing

92,564

68

41,962

31

41,754

85

7,638

15

20,669

43

27,538

57

 

Not from own home

24,820

86

3,884

13

7,554

84

1,398

16

4,920

56

3,832

44

Pre-fracture mobility

Freely mobile without walking aids

50,801

79

12,559

20

21,708

91

2,069

9

6,421

28

16,866

72

 

Mobile outdoors with 1 or 2 aids or frame

39,858

65

20,363

33

16,727

83

3,447

17

7,428

38

12,247

62

 

Some indoor, or no functional, mobility

26,725

66

12,924

32

10,873

76

3,520

24

11,740

84

2,257

16

  1. ASA = American Society of Anesthesiologists. SD = standard deviation
  2. *I & II (healthy patient or patient with mild systemic disease), III (patient with a severe but not incapacitating systemic disease), IV & V (a patient with an incapacitating disease that is also life threatening or a moribund patient not expected to live for 24 h with or without surgery)
  3. Rounding means that some percentages may not total 100
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