title: Improving measures of hip fracture wait times: a focus on ontario.
abstract: In 2009-2010, a "time of surgery" data element was added to CIHI's Discharge Abstract Database enabling a more precise calculation of patient wait times for hip fracture repair, measured in hours rather than days. Using an Ontario sample, we explored this more precise calculation for the first three quarters of 2009-2010 (April to December), and the impact of adding wait times in the emergency department (ED) to the total wait. When we linked emergency department and in-patient care wait times, the percent of patients meeting the benchmark of 48 hours dropped from 78% (when the start time was admission to an acute care bed) to 71%.
authors: MSc, is a project lead with the Canadian Institute for Health Information Emerging Issues team. Jennifer is responsible for performing the analyses and provides methodological support to projects.
authors: Jennifer
authors: J
authors: Frood
authors: BScPT, MBA, is manager of the Canadian Institute for Health Information Emerging Issues team.
authors: Tracy
authors: T
authors: Johnson
mesh_terms: D004636:Emergency Service, Hospital / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006620:Hip Fractures / Q000601:surgery*; D006760:Hospitalization / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D006801:Humans; D009864:Ontario; D010351:Patient Discharge; D013997:Time Factors