Mortality Rate - Hip and femur procedures for trauma excluding joint replacement This is the mortality rate of patients at a particular hospital who have hip and femur procedures for trauma excluding joint replacement. This category includes repairs of the hip and femur other than hip-replacement surgery. Examples of procedures include bone grafts, open reduction of fractures, and closed reduction of fractures. This data has been risk adjusted. Risk adjustment is a process of accounting for differences in patient population based on many parameters such as age, sex, severity of illness, risk of mortality, and other attributes. Risk adjustment allows us to fairly compare hospitals across a wide range of healthcare measures. This measure of quality should be used in conjunction with other measures to gain a more complete understanding of the quality picture.

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