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Failure to Rescue In-Hospital Mortality (risk adjusted)

CBE ID
0352
1.4 Project
Patient Safety
Endorsed
Endorsement Status
Endorsement Removed
1.1 New or Maintenance
Maintenance
E&M Cycle
Fall 2019
Is Under Review
No
1.3 Measure Description

Percentage of patients who died with documented or undocumented complications in the hospital

    • 1.14 Numerator

      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.

    • 1.15 Denominator

      General Surgery, Orthopedic and Vascular patients in specific DRGs with complications plus patients in specific General Surgery, Orthopedic and Vascular DRGs who died in the hospital without complications.

      Inclusions: adult patients admitted for one of the procedures in the General Surgery, Orthopedic or Vascular DRGs (see attachment and Appendix A http://www.research.chop.edu/programs/cor/node/26).

    • Exclusions

      Patients over age 90, under age 18. Those over 90 are excluded due to the increased likelihood that these patients will have DNR orders. This could introduce a bias towards increased failure-to-rescue due to DNR status census, potentially disproportionately penalizing hospitals for deaths that were out of their control. If DNR status were included in the dataset, it could be used as a more accurate exclusion criteria variable.

    • Most Recent Endorsement Activity
      Measure Retired and Endorsement Removed Patient Safety Fall Cycle 2019
      Initial Endorsement
      Last Updated
      Removal Date