Mortality Ratio
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Hospital Care
Country
Netherlands
Publishing Organisation
Statistics Netherlands: Dutch Hospitals
Type of Quality Indicator
Outcome
IOM Quality Dimension
Safety
Setting-Specific Domain
Mortality
Defining Attributes
Definition
Hospital standardised mortality ratios of observed and expected number of deaths within included Dutch hospitals.
Numerator
Observed number of deaths with main diagnosis d in hospital h.
Denominator
Expected number of deaths for this type of admission under the assumption that individual mortality probabilities (per admission) do not depend on the hospital i.e. are equal to mortality probabilities of identical cases in other hospitals.
Exclusions
Day admissions, foreigners, admissions due to COVID-19, admissions of healthy persons, admissions not meeting the Dutch Healthcare Authority criteria.
Use of Risk Adjustment
No
Risk Adjustments
Stratifications
Diagnosis group
Collection and Reporting Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Administrative data
Data Collection Methods
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reporting Frequency
2021-2023
Reporting Frequency in Days
Indicator Has Recommended Targets
No
Source and Reference Attributes
Technical Specifications
Link to Measurement Tools
Domain
Mortality
Quality Indicator Confirmed to be Part of a Program Used to Monitor Quality and Safety of Care Among Older People at a Population-Level between 2012-2022
Yes
Assessed by the Australian Consortium for Aged Care Collaborators as Generally Containing Good Properties (Importance and Scientific Acceptability)
No
Australian Consortium for Aged Care Endorsed
No
Can the Quality Indicator be Readily Implemented at a Population Level in Australia Given its Current Data Landscape?
Implementation of this quality indicator was not assessed.
Identified by PHARMA-Care Project
No
Upload Date
23 July 2025
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Date Modified 10 June 2026