Mortality

Observed to Expected Ratio

The mortality figures expressed are the ratio of the number of inpatient deaths actually occurring ("observed") divided by the number of deaths one would expect to occur considering how sick the patients already are when they come to the hospital for admission ("expected"). A number <1.0 means that fewer deaths are occurring than would be expected; the lower the number the better. The "expected" number is provided to us by the University HealthSystem Consortium (UHC) a group of academic medical centers that, like Stony Brook, tend to take care of the sickest and most complex patients. Thus, we feel that this is the most appropriate comparison for us in that we wish to measure ourselves against a group that includes the most widely recognized teaching hospitals in the United States rather than a grouping of community hospitals that typically care for less complex patients.

A low score is better than a high score.

	The SBUH 2009-2010 score is for the period July 2009 to June 2010. The SBUH 2010-2011 score is for the period July 2010 to June 2011.
	The University HealthSystems Consortium (UHC) median is the middle number for all health care organizations reporting data to UHC for the period July 2010 to June 2011.
	Top 10% score summarizes results from the best 10% of health care organizations reporting to UHC for the period July 2010 to June 2011.

See our results over time

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