The phrase "an expected mortality of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to health, statistics, or risk assessment, where you are discussing anticipated death rates or outcomes.
Example: "The study reported an expected mortality of 5% among patients undergoing the new treatment."
Alternatives: "an anticipated death rate of" or "a projected mortality rate of".
Despite an expected mortality of 70%, observed mortality was 21%.
This shortfall has an expected mortality of about 500 million people.
These patients were undergoing high-risk surgery, with an expected mortality of greater than 5%.
10 Ascites also indicates a poor prognosis, with an expected mortality of around 50% at 2 years.
The first day SAPS II score was 61 ± 13, corresponding to an expected mortality of approximately 70%.
Since this model of endotoxemia has an expected mortality of 40 60% at 24 hours, hemodynamic, oxygen transport and lactate exchange data from the first 12 hours of the experimental protocol – when all animals were still alive – were analyzed first.
This has a mean expected mortality of 500 million people given this shortfall.
Second, we estimated a palliative coefficient based on the expected mortality of patients in Canadian palliative units from other studies, 23 24 which is detailed in the appendix.
Despite the differences in the reference periods, the studies selected for the meta-analysis shared implicitly a fundamental concept of counterfactual inference (Höfler 2005; Maclure 1998; Mittelman et al. 1993): They compared mortality during cold spells with expected mortality of the same days or periods without the cold spell.
Our sample size calculation was based on an expected annual mortality of 9% in the control group, and mortality was 2.8% in our study.
To expand our follow-up period to 1 year, when recovery would be expected to peak (Ortiz-Alonso et al. 2012), would probably have been of minor interest given a 1-year expected mortality rate of approximately 45% for nursing home residents (Beaupre et al. 2012).
