ANZHFR 2021 Annual Report
The ANZHFR is very pleased to be able to provide you with the 2021 Annual Report. We would like to express our appreciation to all the people who have been involved in collecting, collating and analysing the data for this report and those who have put in a great effort progressing it to completion. We hope you will find the Annual Report enlightening and useful as you continue in your endeavours to improve the quality of hip fracture care for your patients. The Australian State report is included in both the Clinical Care Standard Report and the Full e-Report, rather than as a separate Supplementary report as in previous years. For the first time, the reports also include an Outlier Report, which monitors hospital performance against the quality indicators and enables sites to easily see areas of high quality care or those that require review. A PowerPoint slide pack has also been provided should you wish to use it. The slides follow the structure of the Clinical Care Standard Report (excluding Australian State Report and they can be customised to highlight your hospital’s performance and add in any other relevant information e.g., additional figures from the full report or other site-specific information. There is included a pull-out text box and pointer for the hospital level charts. These can be moved down the axis, to line up with your hospital. The pointer and text box can also be positioned separately – simply click on the text box if you need to move it whilst leaving the pointer in place. This is useful towards the bottom of each slide. If you want to highlight more than one hospital, the pointer and text box can be copied and pasted
The ANZHFR is very pleased to be able to provide you with the 2021 Annual Report. We would like to express our appreciation to all the people who have been involved in collecting, collating and analysing the data for this report and those who have put in a great effort progressing it to completion. We hope you will find the Annual Report enlightening and useful as you continue in your endeavours to improve the quality of hip fracture care for your patients.
The Australian State report is included in both the Clinical Care Standard Report and the Full e-Report, rather than as a separate Supplementary report as in previous years. For the first time, the reports also include an Outlier Report, which monitors hospital performance against the quality indicators and enables sites to easily see areas of high quality care or those that require review.
A PowerPoint slide pack has also been provided should you wish to use it. The slides follow the structure of the Clinical Care Standard Report (excluding Australian State Report and they can be customised to highlight your hospital’s performance and add in any other relevant information e.g., additional figures from the full report or other site-specific information. There is included a pull-out text box and pointer for the hospital level charts. These can be moved down the axis, to line up with your hospital. The pointer and text box can also be positioned separately – simply click on the text box if you need to move it whilst leaving the pointer in place. This is useful towards the bottom of each slide. If you want to highlight more than one hospital, the pointer and text box can be copied and pasted
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TOWNSVILLE HOSPITAL
Townsville University Hospital Emergency Department (ED)
provides service to many patients with neck of femur (NOF)
fractures and we pride ourselves on their treatment. From arrival
to ED, their diagnostics are expedited – leading to early treatment
and transfer to specialty care. These patients have increased pain,
especially on movement, so pain management is paramount.
Nerve blocks are administered in almost 100% of patients either
in our department or at the referring centre prior to arrival.
This is to ensure patient comfort and is guided by regular pain
assessments. We understand that specialty care on our orthopaedic
ward is desirable so once nerve blocks are administered and the
NOF pathway has been actioned, it is important that the patient
is transferred in a timely matter. In most cases, these patients
will go directly to the orthopaedic ward to reduce movement and
disorientation. Patients with NOF fractures have a high risk of
deterioration - early diagnosis, early treatment and timely transfer
to specialty care is imperative to positive patient outcomes.
Niki Taylor, A/Nurse Educator, Emergency Department
18 ANNUAL REPORT 2021 / ANZHFR