Mortalities

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• jschoonhoven

  October 2015 edited April 2016

  I think an easy concept for us to miss is that the mortality data is based on ALL patients not just the deceased ones.
  To truly move the E/O ratio, one has to document full severity of all the patients. That’s the only way to show that the number that actually die is small considering the very ill patients that are being treated.
  In other words, if your population of patients appears to be very healthy, less should be dying. If we capture through appropriate documentation how ill they actually are, then it is expected that more will pass away.
  
  Therein lies our reason for working...
  Janice
  
  Janice Schoonhoven RN, MSN, CCDS | Manager | Clinical Documentation Integrity
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• katysuegood@gmail.com

  October 2015 edited April 2016

  I am not familiar with their methodology but keep in mind that it's ALL your patients that factor into the expected rate. Even if all your deaths were a 4/4 you still may have a high O:E if you are not accurately capturing the SOI/ROM of all your patients. Most 4/4's still survive hospitalization. This is yet another reason for all-payer review (if you are not already doing so).
  Additionally, I always think it's important to ensure there are no quality of care issues. Not suggesting that there are but it needs to be ruled out. Before we expanded our program our SOI/ROM was ridiculously high (approaching 2!!). Before we would blame that all on poor documentation/coding, the hospital did a thorough quality review to make sure there were no other issues... We still struggle because of some specific regional issues but we have cut our O:E in half with all payer review in addition to a post-coding mortality review process.
  
  Katy Good, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS
  Clinical Documentation Program Coordinator
  AHIMA Approved ICD-10CM/PCS Trainer
  Flagstaff Medical Center
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• katysuegood@gmail.com

  October 2015 edited April 2016

  Excuse my typos.
  
  That should say that our O:E was approaching 2 before our program was initiated.
  
  Sorry!
  
  Katy Good, RN, BSN, CCDS, CCS
  Clinical Documentation Program Coordinator
  AHIMA Approved ICD-10CM/PCS Trainer
  Flagstaff Medical Center
  Kathryn.Good@nahealth.com
  Cell: 928.814.9404
  
  
  
• evanspx@sutterhealth.org

  October 2015 edited April 2016

  I was asked to provide one definition for this metric.
  
  5. Acute Care Admission Mortality Ratio (Observed/Expected) (1 measure)
  
  Definition: Acute Care Admissions Mortality ratio is the APR-DRG risk-adjusted ratio of observed/expected deaths for acute inpatient admissions based on the MIDAS DataVision benchmark. Results are compared to the MIDAS “universe” standardized O/E mortality ratio (1.0). A ratio of 1.0 means that a hospital’s mortality is average in comparison to the national MIDAS Comparative Database (CDB) comprising more than 800 hospitals. Below 1.0 means that the mortality rate is lower than the average performance of the comparative group and above 1.0 means that the hospital’s mortality is higher than the average performance of the comparative group/database.
  Numerator: Observed deaths.
  Denominator: Expected deaths.
  Measurement Calculation: Numerator divided by denominator.
  Data Source: MIDAS DataVision Hospital APR-DRG Ranking Report.
  Benchmark Goal Source: MIDAS DataVision web application comparison population for the standardized mortality ratio benchmark of 1.0. This is based on the concurrent period MIDAS comparative database of approximately 100,000,000 encounters from more than 800 hospitals nationally.
  Threshold: 1.0
  Full Performance: 1.0
  
  
  Paul Evans, RHIA, CCDS, CCS, CCS-P