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- Kevin Stewart, Mohsin I Choudry, and Rhona Buckingham.
- Clinical Effectiveness and Evaluation Unit, Royal College of Physicians, London, UK.
- Clin Med (Lond). 2016 Dec 1; 16 (6): 530534530-534.
AbstractUnderstanding and learning from hospital deaths is an important component of good clinical practice but current approaches and measures are complex, controversial and difficult to understand. Patients who die are not a homogeneous group but fall into three distinct categories; most learning will be achieved by recognising this and investigating categories of deaths in different ways, relying heavily on qualitative approaches. Numerical measures of overall hospital mortality, such as hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) or measures of 'preventable' deaths, are most unlikely to be helpful at a hospital level and may even give false reassurance, as accuracy of measurement is strongly influenced by factors apart from quality of care.© Royal College of Physicians 2016. All rights reserved.
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