Example of department-specific mortality metrics and data
Mortalities | Category | January 2019 | February | March | April | May | |||||
No | Rate | No | Rate | No | Rate | No | Rate | No | Rate | ||
Internal medicine* | Cat 1 | 8 | 6.45% | 8 | 7.14% | 5 | 10.2% | 5 | 12.50% | 8 | 16.90% |
Goal zero cat 5 by 2020 | Cat 2 | 4 | 3.23.% | 3 | 2.68% | †2 | 4.06% | *1 | 2.50% | 3 | 6.00% |
Cat 3 | †2 | 1.61% | *1 | 0.89% | *1 | 2.04% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cat 4 | *1 | 0.81% | *1 | 0.89% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | *1 | 2.00% | |
Cat 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
No cat | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total mortalities | 15 | 12.1% | 13 | 11.61% | 8 | 16.33% | 6 | 15.00% | 12 | 24% | |
Total # admissions | 124 | 112 | 49 | 40 | 50 | ||||||
Cat 4/5 rate | *1 | 0.81% | *1 | 0.89% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% | *1 | 2.00% | |
Paediatrics† | Cat 1 | *1 | 2.08% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Cat 2 | *1 | 2.08% | *1 | 1.75% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cat 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | *1 | 1.45% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cat 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3.51% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Cat 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1.45% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Not categorised | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
Total #Mortalities | 2 | 4.17% | 3 | 5.26% | 2 | 2.90% | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
Total # Admissions | 48 | 57 | 69 | 60 | 50 | ||||||
Cat 4/5 combined | 0 | 0% | 2 | 3.51% | 1 | 1.45% | 0 | 0% | 0 | 0% |
*Goal zero category 5 by 2020; category 4 deaths decrease by 50% per quarter.
†Goal category 5<2/year by December 2019; category 4<2/year by December 2019.