Stats Chap 7 Mortality Rates

Deaths Rates

A list of all patients who died during their hospital stay *Death Rates should be low, usually < 1

Gross

An amount before anything is subtracted. It includes all deaths, NO exclusions

Surgical Procedure

Any single, separate, systemic process upon or within the body that can be complete in itself.

What figures are used to calculate death rates

Discharge figures

Institutional Death Rate

The total number of inpatient deaths minus the number of deaths that occurred less that 48 hours after admission for a given period of time divided by the total number of inpatient discharges minus the deaths that occurred less than 48 hours after admission for the same period.

NB Death Rate

Total # NB deaths/ Total # NB discharges

Gross Death Rate Formula

Total # deaths for a period/ Total # of discharges (including deaths) for a period

Net Death Rate Formula

Total IP deaths - those < 48 hrs/ Total discharges - deaths < 48 hrs *NB are included in both numerator and denominator

Anesthesia Death Rate Formula

Total deaths by anesthesia/ Total number of anesthesias administered X 100

Postoperative Death Rate Formula

Total surgical deaths within 10 days/ Total patients operated on X 100

Mortality

death rate

Net

Gross - something

Are NB death rates separate from A&C death rates

No, they are usually combined

Surgical Operation

One or more surgical procedures performed at one time for one patient via a common approach or for a common purpose

Name the two rates computed for surgical death rates

Postoperative death rate and anesthesia death rate