Table 1.
Hospitals sampled in nine European countries with patient discharge data, numbers of surgical patients discharged, and numbers of patient deaths (RN4CAST data)
| Number of hospitals |
Mean discharges per hospital (range) |
Deaths/discharges (%) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 59 | 1493 (413–4794) | 1017/88 078 (1·2%) |
| England | 30 | 2603 (868–6583) | 1084/78 045 (1·4%) |
| Finland | 25 | 1516 (175–3683) | 303/27 867 (1·1%) |
| Ireland | 27 | 738 (103–1997) | 292/19 822 (1·5%) |
| Netherlands | 22 | 1419 (181–2994) | 466/31 216 (1·5%) |
| Norway | 28 | 1468 (432–4430) | 518/35 195 (1·5%) |
| Spain | 16 | 1382 (186–3034) | 283/21 520 (1·3%) |
| Sweden | 62 | 1304 (295–4654) | 828/80 800 (1·0%) |
| Switzerland | 31 | 1308 (158–3812) | 590/40 187 (1·5%) |
| Total | 300 | 1308 (103–6583) | 5381/422 730 (1·3%) |
Only hospitals with more than 100 surgical patient discharges were included in the analyses. Data shown are for discharged patients for whom information about 30 day mortality, age, sex, type of surgery, and comorbidities were complete. Data were missing for those characteristics for less than 4% of all patients.