National hospital mortality surveillance system: a descriptive analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To provide a description of the Imperial College Mortality Surveillance System and subsequent investigations by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) in National Health Service (NHS) hospitals receiving mortality alerts.

Background

The mortality surveillance system has generated monthly mortality alerts since 2007, on 122 individual diagnosis and surgical procedure groups, using routinely collected hospital administrative data for all English acute NHS hospital trusts. The CQC, the English national regulator, is notified of each alert. This study describes the findings of CQC investigations of alerting trusts.

Methods

We carried out (1) a descriptive analysis of alerts (2007-2016) and (2) an audit of CQC investigations in a subset of alerts (2011-2013).

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SUBMITTER: Cecil E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6288692 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature