Sentence examples for mortality indicator from inspiring English sources
The mortality indicator is based on 56 conditions that account for 80% of deaths.
The Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) is a new indicator - it was specifically developed after the first inquiry into Mid Staffordshire in 2010.
His investigation will initially focus on five hospital trusts – in Colchester, Tameside, Blackpool, East Lancashire and Basildon and Thurrock – that have posted poor mortality results for the last two years, based on summary hospital-level mortality indicator data, which is one of several ways of examining death rates among patients after hospital treatment.
Nine of the trusts have been "outliers" on the Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratio (HSMR) for two years running and the other five were identified by the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) as having higher than expected death rates.
The report is based on the Summary Hospital-level Mortality Indicator (SHMI), which is the ratio between the actual number of patients who die following treatment at the trust and the number that would be expected to die on the basis of average England figures.
Currently Wales uses a mortality indicator known as RAMI - which gives each hospital a score.
Though statistical significance differs from practical significance, it indicates the need to decrease the mortality indicators to a greater extent.
As indicated in the results section, all mortality indicators except the maternal mortality rate haven't shown a statistically significant decrease between 1987 and 1998 E.C.
Significant associations between income inequality and many mortality indicators were found in pooled cross-sectional regressions, indicating higher mortality in countries with larger income inequalities.
This indicates that the models for all three mortality indicators have been improved in explanatory power by adding the confounding factors.
Dr Poulter, a junior minister and a hospital doctor, said mortality indicators were like smoke alarms.
