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 2011/12
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 (2002-03 to 2011-12), and in separate tables for females, males, and persons.
Highlights
Key Facts
Of the five indicators, mortality rates per 100,000 persons in England are highest among patients admitted for stroke (17,164), followed by fractured proximal femur (7,111), myocardial infarction (4,727), non-elective admissions (3,690), and coronary artery bypass graft (1,553).
There were around 3,863 fewer deaths than were expected for persons in England for admissions for stroke, compared to around 2,782 fewer deaths for non-elective admissions, around 1,337 fewer deaths for fractured proximal femur, around 324 fewer deaths for admissions for myocardial infarction, and around 11 fewer deaths for admissions for coronary artery bypass grafts.
When compared to 2010-11 the mortality rate per 100,000 persons in England shows: There has been a decrease of 5.7 per cent (18,207 to 17,164) for admissions for stroke,
a decrease of 5.3 per cent (1,639 to 1,553) for admissions for coronary artery bypass graft,
a decrease of 4.7 per cent (4,960 to 4,727) for admissions for myocardial infarction,
a decrease of 4.5 per cent (7,444 to 7,111) for admissions for fractured proximal femur,
a decrease of 2.2 per cent (3,773 to 3,690) for non-elective admissions.
Over the latest ten-year period (2002-03 to 2011-12), the mortality rate per 100,000 persons in England shows:
there has been a decrease of 41.2 per cent (8,040 to 4,727) for myocardial infarction,
a decrease of 34.4 per cent (26,155 to 17,164) for admissions for stroke,
a decrease of 33.9 per cent (2,348 to 1,553) for admissions for coronary artery bypass graft,
a decrease of 31.0 per cent (10,314 to 7,111) for admissions for fractured proximal femur,
a decrease of 26.1 per cent (4,995 to 3,690) for non-elective admissions
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