Table 9.
Mortality among acute medical care patients whose case notes were explicitly reviewed before (epoch 1) and after (epoch 3) phase 2 of Safer Patients Initiative (SPI2)
| Control hospitals | SPI2 hospitals | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Epoch 1 | Epoch 2 | Epoch 3* | Epoch 1 | Epoch 2 | Epoch 3* | ||
| No of patients | 120 | 123 | 112 | 116 | 117 | 114 | |
| Deaths | 18 | 24 | 24 | 9 | 15 | 7 | |
| % mortality (SE) | 15 (3.3) | 20 (3.6) | 21 (3.9) | 8 (2.5) | 13 (3.1) | 6 (2.3) | |
| Mean (SD) age (years) | 77.6 (7.7) | 81.1 (7.9) | 79.6 (8.0) | 77.7 (7.6) | 78.1 (7.1) | 80.6 (7.8) | |
| % women | 63.3 | 53.7 | 53.6 | 53.4 | 50.4 | 52.6 | |
| Mean No of comorbidities | 2.9 | 3.1 | 2.6 | 2.8 | 3.0 | 2.9 | |
*After intervention.