Failure to Rescue In-Hospital Mortality (risk adjusted)

Patients who died with a complication plus patients who died without documented complications. Death is defined as death in the hospital.

All patients in an FTR analysis have developed a complication (by definition) or died without a documented complication.

Complicated patient has at least one of the complications defined in Appendix B/D (see attachment and website http://www.research.chop.edu/programs/cor/node/26). Complications are defined using the secondary ICD9/ICD10 diagnosis and procedure codes and the DRG code of the current admission.

Comorbidities are defined in Appendix C/E (see attachment and website http://www.research.chop.edu/programs/cor/node/26) using secondary ICD9/ICD10 diagnosis codes of the current admission and primary or secondary ICD9/ICD10 diagnosis codes of previous admission within 90 days of the admission date of the current admission.

*When Current Procedural Terminology (CPT) codes are available, the definition of complications and comorbidities are augmented to include them.