Mortality indicators

Question 1

What is crude mortality rate?

Answer 1

Number of deaths that occurred/number of admissions x100

Question 2

What is HSMR?

Answer 2

Calculation to monitor death rates in a trust
Based on routinely collected data
Measure to compare in-hospital deaths between providers

Question 3

What is SHMI?

Answer 3

Derived from all admissions to a secondary care organization
Based against the previous 3 year’s national data
predicts the number of expected deaths