National Audit of Inpatient Falls 2020

National Audit of Inpatient Falls Data from March 2020 facilities audit, reported on in Interim Annual Report, published May 2021. Falls are the most frequently reported incident affecting hospital inpatients, with 247,000 falls occurring in inpatient settings each year in England alone (NHS Improvement). The data collected by NAIF and presented below provide opportunity to identify areas in which to enhance the quality of care for people who sustain an inpatient hip fracture. In April 2020, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, submission of audit data was made non-mandatory. To help organisations catch up with data inputting, NAIF extended the clinical audit deadline to the end of 2020. This means that instead of publishing a single report combining clinical and facilities data, this interim report describes facilities data (facilities audit open March to August 2020) and further analysis of inpatient hip fractures from the National Hip Fracture Database. Clinical data will be published in a separate report in Autumn 2021.2020年3月医疗机构设施审计项下的住院患者跌倒全国审计数据集，相关内容刊载于2021年5月发布的中期年度报告。 跌倒是影响住院患者的最常见上报不良事件，仅英格兰地区每年就有24.7万起发生于住院环境的跌倒事件（英国国民保健服务改进署，NHS Improvement）。由NAIF（住院患者跌倒全国审计，National Audit of Inpatient Falls）收集并于下文呈现的数据，为识别可提升住院髋骨折患者照护质量的相关方向提供了契机。 2020年4月，受COVID-19（新型冠状病毒肺炎）疫情影响，审计数据提交不再作为强制要求。为协助各医疗机构补全数据录入工作，NAIF将临床审计截止日期延长至2020年底。这意味着本次中期报告并未发布合并临床与设施数据的综合报告，而是仅涵盖医疗机构审计数据（审计周期为2020年3月至8月），以及来自国家髋骨折数据库（National Hip Fracture Database）的住院髋骨折患者进一步分析结果。临床数据相关报告将于2021年秋季另行发布。