Quality Report Card • Mortality
General Mortality
General mortality is measured by comparing the observed outcome to the expected outcome. This is known as the O/E ratio. A low O/E ratio (below 1.0) indicates better than expected outcome and a high O/E ratio (greater than 1.0) indicates poorer than expected outcome.
Key
| Better Than U.S. Average | At or Near U.S. Average | Worse Than U.S. Average | No National Average or Too Few Cases |
How To Read This Report:
An explanation of the scores and how the cell coloring relates to them.
Desired Performance
This indicates if a high or low score is best for this metric. In some case the desired performance will be neutral. In this case the desired performance is neither high or low and a color rating is not assigned to the statistic of that metric..
Measures
| General Mortality | Low | 1 | 1 |
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Last Updated 01/29/2010