Publication, Part of Archived Compendium - Hospital care indicators
Archived deaths within 30 days of a hospital procedure or of an emergency admission to hospital, financial year 2010/11
Summary
These mortality indicators provide information to help the NHS monitor success in preventing potentially avoidable deaths following hospital treatment.
The National Confidential Enquiry into Patient Outcome and Death (NCEPOD) have, over many years, consistently shown that some deaths are associated with shortcomings in health care. The NHS may be helped to prevent such potentially avoidable deaths by seeing comparative figures and learning lessons from the confidential enquiries, and from the experience of hospitals with low death rates.
The indicators presented measure mortality rates for patients, admitted for certain conditions or procedures, where death occurred either in hospital or within 30 days post discharge
Data are presented for the latest 10 year period (2001-02 to 2010-11), and in separate tables for females, males, and persons.
Highlights
Key Facts
Mortality rates per 100,000 persons in England are highest amongst patients admitted for stroke (18,245.92), followed by fractured proximal femur (7,321.38), myocardial infarction (4,988.87), non-elective admissions (3,684.79), and coronary artery bypass graft (1,636.34).
There were around 3,091 fewer deaths than were expected for persons in England for admissions for stroke, compared to around 2,864 fewer deaths for non-elective admissions, around 1,231 fewer deaths for fractured proximal femur, around 419 fewer deaths for admissions for myocardial infarction, and around 54 fewer deaths for admissions for coronary artery bypass grafts.
When compared to 2009/10 the mortality rate per 100,000 persons in England shows:
there has been a decrease of 5.2 per cent (19,243 to 18,246) for admissions for stroke,
a decrease of 4.6 per cent (7,677 to 7,321) for admissions for fractured proximal femur,
a decrease of 2.4 per cent (3,777 to 3,685) for non elective admissions,
a decrease of 1.7 per cent (1,664 to 1,636) for admissions for coronary artery bypass graft,
a decrease of 1.4 per cent (5,062 to 4,989) for admissions for myocardial infarction.
Over the latest ten year period (2001/02 to 2010/11), the mortality rate per 100,000 persons in England shows:
there has been a decrease in of 42 per cent (8,594 to 4,989) for myocardial infarction,
a decrease of 33 per cent (2,452 to 1,636) for admissions for coronary artery bypass graft,
a decrease of 31 per cent (26,423 to 18,246) for admissions for stroke,
a decrease of 24 per cent (4,850 to 3,685) for non elective admissions,
a decrease of 24 per cent (9,660 to 7,321) for admissions for fractured proximal femur.
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