A new nationwide method for calculating NHS mortality rates has been unveiled following a national review.
The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) will apply to the NHS in England but will not be used in league tables. Instead, it is intended to help hospitals better understand trends associated with patient deaths and will replace a variety of methods currently used. SHMIs are intended to compare the observed number of deaths that actually occurred at a hospital with a statistical estimate of the number of deaths that might have been expected, based upon national average death rates and the particular characteristics of the patients treated in each hospital. An agreement ...
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