Hospital Fatality Ratio

Hospital Fatality Ratio is an indicator that measures the proportion of patients who die in a hospital relative to the total number of hospitalized patients over a specified period of time.

This coefficient allows you to assess the quality of medical care and patient safety in a particular medical institution. The lower the value of this indicator, the better the treatment results and survival of hospitalized patients.

The In-Hospital Mortality Rate is calculated using the following formula:

PIC = (Number of inpatient deaths / Total number of hospitalized patients) x 100%

The indicator allows you to identify trends in patient mortality and compare results between different medical institutions. The coefficient is used to monitor the quality of medical care and develop measures to reduce in-hospital mortality.

Hospital mortality rate (HFR)

The introduction of modern diagnostic and treatment methods and the use of innovative technologies have significantly increased the survival rate of patients with serious diseases. In addition to recoveries, more and more people are suffering from diseases that are characterized by in-hospital deaths, that is, deaths resulting from complications of the disease or procedures performed in a hospital setting. The need to study this indicator is related both to legal requirements and to the potential ability to prevent such difficult and unpredictable situations.

Definition

*There are many definitions of hospital mortality* - mortality of patients in medical institutions - the relative number of people in whom some acute condition resulted in death during hospitalization

_In addition to hospital death, there are* - post-mortem mortality - mortality in the immediate hours after the state of death is declared - clinical mortality - ratio of the number of deaths