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  • Healthcare Quality Improvement
  • Patient Safety
  • Medical Outcomes Research

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  • Hospital mortality rates are key indicators of healthcare quality.
  • While morbidity and mortality meetings are common, hospital-wide mortality review processes are less reported.
  • Understanding quality-of-care issues linked to patient deaths requires robust review systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To detail the implementation of an institution-wide mortality review process.
  • To present the findings and outcomes of this comprehensive review.
  • To identify specific areas for quality improvement in patient care.

Main Methods:

  • Independent nurse and physician review of all hospital deaths over a 3-month period.
  • Multidisciplinary committee review for deaths deemed unanticipated or with improvement opportunities.
  • Analysis of patient characteristics and identified care gaps.

Main Results:

  • 33 deaths (7.7%) were unanticipated; 100 (23.4%) had improvement opportunities.
  • 97 opportunities for improved care were identified.
  • Most common gaps: inadequate goals of care discussion (25.8%) and delayed diagnosis (8.3%).
  • Patients with improvement opportunities had longer stays and lower predicted mortality risk.
  • Reviewers spent 142 hours outside committee meetings.

Conclusions:

  • Institution-wide mortality review revealed numerous quality gaps among deceased patients.
  • Inadequate discussion of goals of care emerged as a primary area needing attention.
  • Findings underscore the need for systematic review to enhance healthcare quality.