30-Day Mortality in Stroke Patients
Identifying Attributes
Care Settings
Country
Publishing Organisation
Type of Quality Indicator
IOM Quality Dimension
Domain
Defining Attributes
Definition
The percentage of cerebral infarction patients who died within 30 days of observing the infarction.
Numerator
Cerebral infarction patients who died within 30 days of observing the infarction
Denominator
All patients who have received hospital treatment due to a cerebral infarction during the period in question and whose care notification history does not indicate any previous cerebrovascular disorders
Exclusions
Patients under 18 years of age, long-term patients, and patients whose home municipality is unknown or located abroad or on the Åland Islands according to the cerebral infarction care notification
Use of Risk Adjustment
Risk Adjustments
Age, gender and associated diseases as well as hospital transfer and the number of treatment days in inpatient care during the 365 days preceding the start of monitoring
Stratifications
Region, the well-being services county, hospital district, whole country
Data Attributes
Type of Data Collection
Data Collection Methods
PERFECT - PERFormance, Effectiveness and Cost of Treatment episodes (THL) The research data are based on the following registers: THL: Hospital discharge registers, Finnish Care Register (incl. data in supplements on cerebral infarction patients), Register of primary health care visits, Endoprosthesis register Social Insurance Institution: entitlements to special refunds on medicine (free-of-charge), medicine reimbursements, private examinations and treatments, visits to private practitioners Statistics Finland: Causes of Death Register Digital and population data services agency, Population information system: date of death and marital status
Frequency of Data Collection
Frequency of Data Collection in Days
Reporting Methods
Reported on website. To reduce variation caused by randomness, the numbers are presented for two-year cohorts.