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. 2021 Oct 8;48(3):1625–1638. doi: 10.1007/s00068-021-01797-8

Table 4.

Process measurements

Countries Variables Sweden Scotland Denmark Finland Norway NHFD Ireland Germany Italy Netherlands Spain Range
Time to ward < 4 h (%) 80.8 28.7 25 25–80.8
Time to surgery (hours)
 Mean 23.5 24 34 24.2 (54) 64.6 23.5–64.6
 Median 21 26 17.8 41 20 17.8–41
 < 24 h (%) 66 69.7 50.3 43 72 67 43–72
 < 36 h (%) 86 76.6 86.3 (70.2) 60 83 60–86.3
 < 48 h (%) 94 94.7 83.8 76 91 64.7 93 48.1 48.1–94.7
Mobilization 1st day post-surgery (%) 67.7 76a 81 82 79 69.9 67.7–82
Orthogeriatric co-management (%) 85b 91b 82 86 90.2 74 89.6 74–91
Falls assessment (%) [88] 89.1 96.6 83 83–96.6
Bone health assessment (%) 91.4 90.3 96.5 94 90.3–96.5
Bone protection medication (%)
 Before fracture 7.2 16 (3.9) 4.4 (10) 5.9 3.9–16
 At discharge 50[50] (50) 55.5 71 (10) 31.1 (19) 42.2 10–71

NHFD: England/Wales/Northern Ireland

aWithin 24 h after surgery

bWithin 3 days after presentation

When recent data were not available, data from Ojeda-Thies et al. [16] or Johansen et al. [18] were used indicated by () or []