Avoidability of hospital deaths and association with hospital-wide mortality ratios: retrospective case record review and regression analysis (July 2015)

Summary

The objective of this paper, published by the BMJ, was to determine the proportion of avoidable deaths (due to acts of omission and commission) in acute hospital trusts in England, and to determine the association with the trust’s hospital-wide standardised mortality ratio assessed using the two commonly used methods - the hospital standardised mortality ratio (HSMR) and the summary hospital level mortality indicator (SHMI).