Table 9.
Patient safety and health care quality measures at organisation level.
| Mean | Min | Max | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Relative Risks | ||||
| HSMR |
Hospital Standardized Mortality Risk (spells with a primary diagnosis of any of 56 CCS groups) |
99.1 | 67.1 | 120.3 |
| HSMR2 |
Hospital Standardized Mortality Risk (spells with any primary diagnosis) |
98.8 | 66.9 | 116.4 |
| VLRM |
Very Low Risk Mortality (spells with a primary diagnosis associated with a low mortality diagnosis group – consistently below 0.5%) |
95.3 | 37.3 | 181.3 |
| ASM |
After Surgery Mortality (deaths following surgery with complications) |
98.7 | 37.7 | 192.9 |
| HSMR_E |
Hospital Standardized Mortality Risk for weekend emergency admissions (in-hospital deaths following weekend emergency admissions) |
97.3 | 68.9 | 117.9 |
| HSMR_EW |
Hospital Standardized Mortality Risk for weekday emergency admissions (in-hospital deaths following weekday emergency admissions) |
104.5 | 61.5 | 131.0 |
| READM | 28 day readmissions | 99.7 | 6.6 | 83.6 |
| Rates | ||||
| MRSA | [MRSA/(total number of spells)]*10000 | 0.7 | 0.0 | 2.8 |
| MSSA | [MSSA/(total number of spells)]*10000 | 1.8 | 0.5 | 6.2 |
| C. diff | [C. diff/(total number of spells)]*10000 | 4.2 | 1.4 | 13.6 |
| Ecoli | [Ecoli/(total number of spells)]*10000 | 24.0 | 14.8 | 64.4 |
| PSI | rate of organisational patient safety incidents | 6.9 | 2.0 | 17.6 |
| Day-case/Inpatient | Day-case over inpatient rate | 4.5 | 0 | 11.3 |
| Count | ||||
| Never events | total number of never events | 1.7 | 0.0 | 9.0 |