In-hospital deaths per 1,000 hospital discharges with hip fracture as a principal diagnosis for patients ages 65 years and older. Excludes periprosthetic fracture discharges, obstetric discharges, cases in hospice care at admission, and transfers to another hospital.
[NOTE: The software provides the rate per hospital discharge. However, common practice reports the measure as per 1,000 discharges. The user must multiply the rate obtained from the software by 1,000 to report in-hospital deaths per 1,000 hospital discharges.]
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1.5 Measure Type1.7 Electronic Clinical Quality Measure (eCQM)1.8 Level Of Analysis1.9 Care Setting1.20 Testing Data Sources
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1.14 Numerator
Number of deaths (DISP=20) among cases meeting the inclusion and exclusion rules for the denominator.
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1.15 Denominator
Discharges, for patients ages 65 years and older, with a principal ICD-10-CM diagnosis code for hip fracture (MTHIPFD).
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Exclusions
Exclude cases:
• With any-listed ICD-10-CM diagnosis codes for periprosthetic fracture (MTHIP2D)
• Transferring to another short-term hospital (DISP=2)
• Cases in hospice care at admission (PointOFOriginUB04=F)
• MDC 14 (pregnancy, childbirth, and puerperium)
• with missing discharge disposition (DISP=missing), gender (SEX=missing), age (AGE=missing), quarter (DQTR=missing), year (YEAR=missing) or principal diagnosis (DX1=missing)
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Risk Adjustment
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