Topic: Mortality

Clinicians & Providers

• Screening Mammography Use in Medicare Beneficiaries Reflects 4-year Mortality Risk
• The Relationship between the Emergent Primary Percutaneous Coronary Intervention Quality Measure and Inpatient Myocardial Infarction Mortality

Other News & Events

• A few preoperative factors can be used to predict inpatient deaths following surgery
• Abnormal electrocardiogram results nearly double the risk of cardiovascular-related death for patients without heart disease
• Aldosterone antagonist therapy at hospital discharge linked to modest reduced risk of rehospitalization for heart failure
• Better hospital quality of care for the elderly is associated with lower mortality after discharge
• Blacks who receive heart transplants have poorer survival than other racial groups
• Certain hospital characteristics influence mortality after complications following high-risk surgery
• Certain hospital strategies lower mortality rates for heart attack patients
• Complications after kidney cancer surgery are linked with decreased long-term survival
• Continuing beta blockers after noncardiac surgery improves patient outcome
• Deaths from hospital complications drop, disparities remain
• Factors linked to racial or ethnic disparities in U.S. fetal death rates differ among groups
• Four drugs to treat chronic heart failure found similarly effective
• Hospital deaths from heart failure cut by half over 7 years
• Hospital volume does not predict mortality for patients undergoing lung cancer surgery
• Hospitals with a high volume of sepsis admissions have lowest mortality rates
• Hospitals with more patients who receive angioplasty within 90 minutes of a heart attack have lower mortality rates
• ICUs in Michigan sustain zero bloodstream infections for up to 2 years
• Lower mortality rates after surgery at high-volume hospitals due to fewer complications and other factors
• Medicare Advantage enrollees are admitted to hospitals with higher mortality rates than Medicare fee-for-service enrollees
• Medicare-insured patients with head or neck cancer differ little in mortality risk because of race or ethnicity
• Obese patients with hypertension and diabetes have a greater risk of dying after noncardiac surgery
• Older persons with chronic kidney disease and lower systolic blood pressure have higher mortality rates
• Organizational culture distinguishes top-performing hospitals in patient outcomes from heart attack
• Partial kidney removal offers survival advantage for elderly patients with small tumors
• Patients transferred to the intensive care unit within 24 hours of admission
• Primary anterior cervical fusion has lower in-hospital complication rates and deaths than posterior cervical fusion
• Procalcitonin guidance may lead to decreased antibiotic usage
• Research Briefs
• Studies find emotional and health problems and elevated deaths among recently released prisoners
• Trauma center patients treated after hours or on weekends have no difference in mortality rates
• Two approaches help identify cardiac surgery patients at risk for postoperative kidney failure