Based on the research, English National Health Service (NHS) patients have 45 percent chance of dying in hospitals than patients in the U.S. It describes data collection strategies utilised by Jarman which include calculation of hospital standardised mortality ratio. The need to improve NHS ...
During that time, there were 5,931 deaths during the 30 days after patients were admitted to hospital. The official figures are based on information from acute inpatient and day-case patients admitted to all medical and surgical specialities in NHS Scotland. The Hospital Standardise...
1,073,122 patients admitted to Massachusetts hospitals corresponding to 36 hospital standardised mortality ratio diagnosis groups that account for 80% of in-hospital deaths nationally. Adjusted in-hospital mortality rates and hospital standardised mortality ratios. The significant factors determining in-...
Standardised weekly rates were estimated with a Poisson regression model. Only for Tuscany, mortality risk at 30 days after hospitalisation was calculated with the Kaplan–Meier estimator. Mortality risk ratios were calculated using Cox proportional regression models. Results Nineteen thousand two ...
Adjusted hospital mortality for 2007-8 (the year the care bundles were introduced) was then compared with the previous year using the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR). The HMSR is a comparative measure of a hospital's overall mortality. It focuses on a group of diagnoses that acco...
The death rate was measured by three different indicators: the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HMSR); the summaryhospitallevel mortality indicator (SHMI); and the monthly crude mortality. The new target was associated with a fall in all three indicators of between 4.5% and 4.8%. ...
Given the wider social duty to promote equality that is enshrined in the NHS Constitution (see Introduction), a downward sloping social gradient would be cause for concern. Fig. 2 shows trends in the Standardised Utilisation Rate (rather than the ratio) by year and deprivation group, again ...
We use 16 measures of hospital quality from Dr Foster12 for the financial year 2009/10 for 147 hospitals (NHS Hospital Trusts). Details on these measures are in the Appendix A. Six of the quality measures are based on standardised mortality rates, seven on standardised readmission, revisions ...
P Risk of hospital admissions (0.94, meta-analysis (H) Assessment of the effectiveness of 0.91–0.97) and falls (0.90, 0.86– community-based complex 0.95) were reduced, and physical interventions in preservation of physical function (standardised mean function and independe...
NHS Grampian and University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland Roy L. Soiza Health Economics, University of East Anglia Medical School, Norwich, England Richard Fordham Contributions All listed authors meet the ICMJE criteria for authorship including manuscript preparation. In particular, AHL contributed to...