Failure to Rescue 30-Day Mortality (risk adjusted)

Patients who died with a complication plus patients who died without documented complications. Death is defined as death within 30 days from admission.

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

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

Comorbidities are defined in Appendix C/E (see attachment and website https://cor.research.chop.edu/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 definitions of complications and comorbidities are augmented to include them