Hospital mortality
Hospital mortality is a key indicator of patient safety and quality of care. Our toolkit supports the monitoring of in-hospital mortality.
What is in-hospital mortality?
In-hospital mortality refers to the death of a patient during their hospitalisation.
This can happen for many different reasons, so it is important that hospitals monitor hospital mortality to identify if there is a potential safety and quality issue.
How we are supporting hospitals to monitor in-hospital mortality
Reviewing in-hospital mortality rate data is crucial to identifying and tracking trends in hospital deaths and introducing safety and quality improvements if needed.
Our Core hospital-based outcome indicators Toolkit provides resources to monitor in-hospital mortality, including:
- A national core, hospital-based outcome indicators specification
- SAS (statistical software) programs for use with local hospital data
- technical notes to accompany SAS programs, and
- coefficients and reference sets generated from national data for risk adjustment and comparison.
A consent form which also agrees to our Terms and conditions need to be completed and accepted to access the toolkit.