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We found hospital dischrage abstracts can be used identify the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence 124 guideline list of conditions that appropriately delay hip fracture surgery. Accounting for medically necessary delays can improve estimates of the effectiveness of early surgery.
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Why is it important?
Failure to account for medically necessary delays may lead to an underestimation of early surgery benefits.
Perspectives
Medical reasons for delays point to appropriate timing of surgery
Professor Boris Sobolev
University of British Columbia
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This page is a summary of: Feasibility of using administrative data for identifying medical reasons to delay hip fracture surgery: a Canadian database study, BMJ Open, October 2017, BMJ,
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-017869.
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