The greater the percentage meeting the benchmark, the greater the proportion of patients in that province who received treatment within the benchmark (48 hours).
This indicator is calculated based on National Ambulatory Care Reporting System (NACRS), Discharge Abstract Database (DAD) and provincial wait time data for the first 2 quarters of the fiscal year (April 1 to September 30).
Percentage meeting benchmark is calculated by dividing the number of patients who received care within the benchmark timeframe by the total number of patients receiving care.
Unit of Analysis: Episode of care
An episode of care refers to all contiguous inpatient hospitalizations where the patient was first registered in an emergency department (ED). If more than one ED episode is linked to a single acute hip fracture episode, then the ED episode with the earliest entry date/time (index admission) is selected. Only acute care episodes that began between 24 hours before and 12 hours after the patient is recorded as leaving the ED are included.
For acute care episodes with transfers between facilities, transfers are linked regardless of diagnoses. Abstracts for the same patient are linked as part of the same episode when one of the following is true:
- An acute care hospitalization occurs less than 7 hours after discharge from the previous acute care hospitalization, regardless of whether the transfer is coded; or
- An acute care hospitalization occurs between 7 and 12 hours after discharge from the previous acute care hospitalization, and at least one of the hospitalizations has coded the transfer.
Wait time is calculated in hours from the episode start date/time (initial ED registration) to the procedure date/time of the hip fracture surgery.
The number of hip fracture episodes among patients age 18 and older that were surgically treated in an acute care hospital
A subset of the denominator that represents the number of hip fracture episodes in which patients were surgically treated within 48 hours of initial admission to the ED
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