Difference between revisions of "Hospital mortality"

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Hospital Mortality is the fraction of patients that died during hospitalization.

For a single patient, hospital mortality can be true or false. Condition for true is:

Patient died and the date of death is less or equal to the date of discharge.

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-'''Hospital Mortality''' is the fraction of patients that died within 30 days from the date of surgery or before date of discharge from a hospital (even if it was more than 30 days from date of surgery).
+'''Hospital Mortality''' is the fraction of patients that died during hospitalization.
+For a single patient, hospital mortality can be true or false. Condition for true is:
+''Patient died and the date of death is less or equal to the date of discharge.''
 '''See also'''