Mortality
Recommendations related to mortality
Tag overview
recommendation across 2 inquiries
Across 2 inquiries
Tagged Recommendations
Mortality Meeting Recording and Audit
The proceedings of mortality meetings should be digitally recorded, the recording securely archived and an annual audit made of proceedings and procedures.
Multi-Trust Mortality Meeting Engagement
Where the care and treatment under review at a mortality meeting involves more than one hospital or Trust, video conferencing facilities should be provided and relevant professionals from all relevant …
Transparency use and sharing of information
Consideration should be given to whether information from incident reports involving deaths in hospital could enhance consideration of the hospital standardised mortality ratio.
Improving and assuring accuracy
To the extent that summary hospital-level mortality indicators are not already recognised as national or official statistics, the Department of Health and the Health and Social Care Information Centre should …