Developing a summary hospital mortality index: retrospective analysis in English hospitals over five years.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To develop a transparent and reproducible measure for hospitals that can indicate when deaths in hospital or within 30 days of discharge are high relative to other hospitals, given the characteristics of the patients in that hospital, and to investigate those factors that have the greatest effect in changing the rank of a hospital, whether interactions exist between those factors, and the stability of the measure over time.

Design

Retrospective cross sectional study of admissions to English hospitals.

Setting

Hospital episode statistics for England from 1 April 2005 to 30 September 2010, with linked mortality data from the Office for National Statistics.

Participants

36.5 million completed hospital admissions in 146 general and 72 specialist trusts.<

SUBMITTER: Campbell MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3291118 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature