Data Forms

USER GUIDE

Please click below to access the ANZHFR User Guide for participating sites:

ANZHFR 2025 User Guide

2026 Data Forms

The data collection forms are often reviewed, with changes made to reflect current trends in patient care.

Electronic versions are available are listed below.

These forms are to be used for patients admitted from 1st, January 2026.

Summary of Changes

Here are the changes from the 2025 to 2026 datasets

2026: Summary of Changes

Data Dictionary

The Data Dictionary defines all the data collected in the registry.

2026: Data Dictionary (Version 18)

Patient Level Data Entry Form

If you are collecting data on the ward, download and print this form. It will allow you to capture every field required by the registry.

The form also contains the EQ5D as part of the follow-up at 120 days.

2026: Patient Level Form with EQ5D - Australia

2026: Patient Level Form with EQ5D - New Zealand

EXPORT SPREADSHEET

2026 Export Spreadsheet

Archived Forms

Here are the previous year's Data Dictionary

2025 Documentation & Resources

Summary of Changes

Here are the changes from the 2024 to 2025 datasets

2025: Summary of Changes

Data Dictionary

The Data Dictionary defines all the data collected in the registry.

2025: Data Dictionary (Version 17)
 
 
 

Registry FAQs

There are many questions for sites about data collection for the Registry, please see our answers below. If you cannot find the answer you are looking for please get in contact with us. 

Admission
Which patients are eligible to be included in the ANZHFR?

Men and women aged 50 years and over admitted to hospital for management of a fractured proximal femur.

Does the registry include periprosthetic fractures or is it only for people with a primary hip fracture?

The registry records only primary hip fracture. However, if the person is included in the registry for a primary fracture and sustains a periprosthetic fracture as a complication of treatment, the periprosthetic fracture would be included in the data captured at 30 or 120 days if it required re-operation.

What happens if a person presents to a hospital without imaging facilities and is then transferred to a hospital for imaging and then transferred to a third hospital for treatment. Which of the first or second hospitals is the transfer hospital?

The transfer hospital is the first hospital the person presented to.

A patient has an undiagnosed #NOF on admission and is admitted to a medical unit. They are seen by the Orthopaedic team days later. X-rays taken earlier support a diagnosis of #NOF. From when is delay to the operating theatre measured? And what is the date/time of diagnosis?

Both are measured from the time of diagnosis.

Can the preferred ward be an infection control ward?

Yes if it is because they have an infection (eg MRSA) and it is an appropriate admission to an infection control ward. It would be recorded as the "preferred ward". If the admission to the ward is because it is the only place a bed can be found then it would be recorded as an "outlying ward".

Assessment
Our hospital doesn't do an AMT Score. In terms of cognition screening we preform the RUDAS (Rowlands universal dementia assessment screen), or the ACE3 (Addenbrookes cognition examination) and I'm wondering how I can enter that into the data base because it doesn't exactly match up with the scores that are provided for the AMT score.

Leave the field blank. This field will be reviewed in 2016 to reflect appropriate cognitive screening tools.

Treatment
How much data is entered for patients who are not treated by surgery? And are they followed up at 30 and 120 days?

Patients managed conservatively have all available data fields completed and are also followed up at 30 and 120 days. Data fields relating to surgery are "hidden" by the registry.

Is a nerve block recorded in the Anaesthesia data field or solely in the Analgesia data field if it was performed preoperatively?

The nerve block will be recorded in the Analgesia data field.

The patient was given a combination of a general anaesthetic and a femoral nerve block in the operating theatre. How is this recorded?

General is the Anaesthesia and femoral nerve block is the Analgesia.

How are combination anaesthetics recorded in the database? Eg an anaesthetic which combines general and spinal.

Combination anaesthesia would be recorded as 'Other'.

Is the Queensland Health Falls Assessment and Management Plan enough to qualify for a specialist falls assessment as per the ANZHFR data field?.

No. This is a standard screen for risk of falls in hospital and doesn't replace a specialised falls assessment. The Data Dictionary has a definition of what qualifies as a specialist falls assessment.

The patient is given the opportunity to mobilise on day 1, but didn't due to a patient dependant reason. Must the patient get out of bed or just be given the opportunity to mobilise?

This would be recorded as given the opportunity to mobilise.

How is 'bone protection medication at discharge' recorded if medication has been prescribed but not commenced at discharge?

If the person has been discharged before commencing the medication, data will be recorded as "no bone protection medication". Documentation that the medication is recommended does not satisfy requirements for medication having commenced at discharge. If they are recommencing a previously prescribed medication prior to discharge then it would be recorded as "yes" in the relevant category.

Most of our patients are discharged with a recommendation for bispohosphonate (oral or IV) strontium, denosumab or teriparitide (with or without calcium and/or vitamin D) to commence at 3 months. How is this recorded?

A recommendation that has been acted on after discharge will be captured at the 30-day and/or 120-day follow up.

Discharge
A person is discharged with HITH (Hospital In The Home) services. How is the discharge status recorded?

The option that best describes the environment in which the service is provided. It is most likely to be the "private residence".

How do I record the date of discharge from the acute / orthopaedic ward? The patient may be discharged to rehabilitation however wait several days to be transferred because there are no available beds, or they are statistically 'type changed'.

The acute ward / orthopaedic ward discharge date is the date the person physically leaves the bed. It does not relate to a discharge based on a coding change.

How do I record the date of final discharge from hospital system?

If the patient leaves the hospital directly from the acute ward then the date recorded is the same as the acute / orthopaedic ward discharge date. If the patient is transferred to rehabilitation, then the date they leave from rehabilitation is the date recorded. If the patient is transferred to rehabilitation outside your hospital campus/health district, it may not be possible to determine the date they leave the hospital system. In this case the date is left blank.