Death Rate Among Surgical Inpatients With Serious Treatable Complications
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
In-hospital deaths per 1,000 surgical discharges among patients with serious treatable complications (shock/cardiac arrest, sepsis, pneumonia, gastrointestinal haemorrhage/acute ulcer, or deep vein thrombosis/pulmonary embolism).
Numerator
Number of deaths among discharges meeting the inclusion and exclusion rules for the denominator.
Denominator
Surgical discharges for patients aged 18 through 89 years with admission type of elective, or any admission type in which the earliest ICD-10-PCS code for an operating room procedure occurs within two days of admission, and meets the inclusion and exclusion criteria for the serious treatable complications.
Exclusions
Non-Medicare patients and beneficiaries enrolled in Medicare managed care plans are excluded from the data.
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
None
Stratifications
By hospital.
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
Discharge data
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
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