Rates of the infection are recorded differently so that deaths caused by it do not affect hospital mortality rates.
BBC: Royal Bolton Hospital: Deaths 'were not wrongly recorded'
While related hospital mortality rates range from 15 percent to 37 percent, higher where staff is unprepared or untrained, pilot programs have shown the effectiveness of prompt treatment with antibiotics and fluids.
It's important to remember that, however good English hospitals are at coding, at this stage that the whole issue of hospital mortality indexes are a controversial issue within the medical profession across the UK and beyond.
When one measure, the Hospital Standardised Mortality Rate, was introduced in 2001, Walsall Manor hospital was found to have the worst rate in England, compared with expected levels.
While politicians--especially the new administration--focus on rapidly rising health care costs, one rather important piece of good news is that hospital inpatient mortality rates are plummeting.
The report by the NHS Information Centre looks at the number of deaths following treatment, known as the Summary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator (SHMI).
BBC: Northern Lincolnshire hospitals' death rates still high
Surgery resumed on Wednesday after it was suspended on 28 March amid NHS claims the hospital had a mortality rate twice the national average.
They were able to spot signs of flu in a geographical area one to two weeks faster than the CDC, which relies on reports of hospital admissions, mortality rates and other official data.
For example, the UVa study I discussed above employed a widely used, highly validated methodology that identified the thirty factors most significantly correlated to substantial increases in length of hospital stay, hospital charges, and mortality.
When it happens outside of a hospital it has extremely high mortality rates.
At first, Escobar focused on lowering the infant mortality rate at the hospital where she'd volunteered.
It also boasts the lowest birth and infant mortality rates, more hospital beds than any other state, plus the greatest per-capita supply of foodgrain through the state public distribution system.
It was commissioned by the council's health scrutiny committee after long-term, high mortality figures at Walsall Manor Hospital.
Following the report, the Department of Health announced a separate investigation into the apparently excessive mortality rates of five other hospital trusts.
There is an impact on the number of hospital visits and there is an impact on mortality, even at concentrations that many countries experience.
Its 2011 report said the trust had higher than expected mortality rates for deaths while in hospital care and for those following hospital treatment.
The Dr Foster Hospital Guide found the Nottinghamshire trust had a high mortality rate in one of four measures used by the private research group.
Simdax, which is given in the hospital when patients are extremely sick, never reduced mortality by a large enough margin compared with dobutamine to be sure the results weren't due to chance, but there was a consistent trend toward a benefit.
Operations were suspended while a review was carried out into concerns about the number of deaths at the hospital because of information about higher-than-usual mortality rates.
Two Lancashire hospital trusts have been rated among the worst in England for mortality rates in a new report.
Last month it also emerged that the Cumbrian trust, which runs Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle and the West Cumberland Hospital in Whitehaven, was among 14 being investigated over high mortality rates.
Studies show that patients who enter the hospital with stroke or heart disease at night or on weekends have higher mortality than midweek, 9am-5pm admissions.
The report uses four mortality rate measures, including deaths after treatment and deaths in hospital care, to show which centres have a higher or lower rate than expected.
The report used four mortality rate measures, including deaths after treatment and deaths in hospital care, to show which centres had a higher or lower rate than expected.
Victor Inyang, an accident and emergency consultant at the hospital, said if untreated, Mrs Carter's condition had a 90% mortality rate.
The hospital, run by North Cumbria University Hospitals NHS Trust, is already being investigated over higher-than-expected mortality rates.
At medical meetings and in the journals Circulation and The Journal of the American Medical Association, Jonathan Sackner-Bernstein of North Shore University Hospital and Keith Aaronson of the University of Michigan fretted that Natrecor might cause kidney problems or even an increase in mortality.
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