Establishing criteria for physicians lowers hip fracture mortality.

Abstract

Establishing criteria for physicians lowers hip fracture mortality. Hundreds of physicians with privileges at Staten Island University Hospital were told that they no longer could assess and treat patients who had suffered a hip fracture. It may sound like a bitter pill for the doctors to swallow, but the decision turned out to be the right one for the 785-bed hospital, located in the New York City borough of Staten Island.