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Exploring clinical variation in mortality – Mortality following hospitalisation, seven clinical conditions, NSW

July 2012 to June 2015

This report presents risk-standardised mortality rates for seven clinical conditions in NSW, and across 75 public hospitals.

Measures that assess how healthcare affects patient outcomes such as mortality and readmission make a crucial contribution to performance evaluation. When appropriately risk adjusted, they can point to unwarranted clinical variation.

Released: 12 April 2017


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Individual hospital profiles

See detailed results for 79 individual public hospitals.

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Overview summary

Overview of risk-standardised measures of mortality and unplanned readmission for patients who were hospitalised during the period July 2012 – June 2015.

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Two new reports shed light on hospital mortality and readmissions in NSW

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Other reports in this series

Mortality following hospitalisation for seven clinical conditions, July 2015 – June 2018

This report presents mortality rates for seven clinical conditions in NSW in the 30 days following admission to hospital.

Released: 27 November 2019

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30-day mortality following hospitalisation, five clinical conditions, NSW, July 2009 – June 2012

The report looks at deaths within 30 days of hospitalisation for heart attack, ischaemic stroke, haemorrhagic stroke, pneumonia and hip fracture surgery.

Released: 05 December 2013

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