Utilization of routinely collected administrative data in monitoring the incidence of aging dependent hip fracture

Table 1 Number of hip fractures in Finland 1998–2002

	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	Mean
Records with hip fracture diagnosis in the Finnish Health Care Register	14089	13818	14192	14978	15071	14430
The number of patients with hip fracture diagnosis	7817	7661	7643	7924	8030	7815
The number of patients with hip fracture discharge	7575	7465	7425	7706	7854	7605
Admissions with hip fracture diagnosis Of which:	13219	12965	13381	14142	14145	13570
- recorded hip fracture operation	5934	5972	6100	6221	6195	6084
- recorded hip fracture operation or at least two years gap to earlier record with hip fracture diagnosis	6742	6631	6702	6924	6937	6787
- recorded hip fracture operation or at least two months gap to earlier record with hip fracture diagnosis	7246	7094	7136	7411	7405	7258
Admissions with first record with hip fracture diagnosis in ten years Of which:	5990	5853	5932	6083	6141	6000
- persons aged 50 or more	5551	5413	5543	5644	5667	5564