Inpatient Mortality

Overview

Use this report to examine the institution's mortality rates by date range and/or length of stay. You can view mortality details by several different categories and see patient death by age range.

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Slicers

Entity

The entity drop-down lists all of the clinics, hospitals, and other entities that comprise your institution. You can choose to view all of those entities or select a single entity to view.

Discharge date range

This control lets you select a range of dates of discharge. You can use the slider or, for more precision, click on each date box to choose a date from a calendar.

Length of stay

This control lets you select a range of days for length of stay. You can use the slider or, for more precision, click on each box to type in a number of days.

Inpatient Mortality Rate Trend

This chart shows mortality trends over your date range. You can view the trend for all providers, or choose a single attending physicians, DRG, provider specialty, or service line to view.

You can move your cursor over any node on the chart to view mortality details.

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View details by

This chart allows you to choose to view details by attending provider, DRG, provider specialty, or service line. For each category, you will see the number of encounters and deaths and the effective mortality rate. The choice of category determines the data for the rate trend chart.

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Death by Patient Age Bucket

This bar chart shows the number of inpatient deaths by standard age categories.

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