The Consequences Of In-Hospital Mortality

The author describes medicalized mortality as the natural process of aging/dying that has been altered by medicine. People die in the hospital in the name of receiving treatment. Lives are prolonged using medicine & technology. By the use of medicine/technology to prolong life, we inflict more harm and suffering to people and deny them their comfort of dying naturally in their homes. The death of Ivan illustrates suffering. He described his situation as torture, only him will understands the kind of pain he goes through. The modern medicine failed him since his health professionals were unable to diagnose him, and was denied compassionate care. Ivan also described his situation as depressing; he continues to live in anguish and fear of death.

Aiken, L.H., Clarke, S.P., Sloane, D.M., Lake, E.T. & Cheney, T. (2008). Effects of hospital care

Hospital is the place to go when someone is sick and requires medical attention. It is shocking to know that one can contract diseases while in the hospital facility which were not present during admission. And that ‘Never Events’ which are preventable incidents such as wrong site surgery do occur in the hospital setting. How do we prevent hospital acquired conditions and never events from occurring in the hospital? It will be interesting to figure out the answers to these questions as hospital acquired conditions and Never Events are the major concerns of the health care system.

In doing the reviewed study researchers calculated rates of hospitalizations for different conditions using various counts of admissions inpatient data and estimates of the population from the census. They also aquired data on admissions taken from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's. Among the HCUP databases is the Statewide Inpatient Database (SID), which contains discharge data from nearly all hospitalizations in several states. In the study, SID data from the 23 states were used from the 2005–2007 year period. When using the SID files for these states, we count hospitalizations separately by state, year, and two age groups: 60–64 and 65-plus. The quantity of hospitalizations for eight conditions that they hoped to be delicate to medicate adherence: here and now inconveniences of diabetes, ceaseless obstructive pneumonic issue, congestive heart disappointment (CHF), angina, uncontrolled diabetes, asthma, stroke, and intense myocardial localized necrosis

With a quantitative approach, a descriptive, prospective, cross-sectional method was used to collect data. Utilizing medical records from 51 patients hospitalized between February and April of 2013, data such as age, Braden Scale scores, comorbidities and length of stay were collected. Clinical data obtained was then organized in an Excel table and input into the statistical software, Epi Info, to be arranged for statistical analysis (Oliveira de Carvalho et al.,

Multiple studies demonstrate a relationship between lower patient-to-nurse ratios and improved patient outcomes (Garrett, 2008; Penoyer, 2010; Unruh, 2008). Patient outcomes addressed in the various studies included falls, infections, length of stay, mortality, patient safety, patient satisfaction, postoperative complications, pressure ulcers, quality of care and unplanned extubation with reintubation. A 2004 report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) stated that adverse events can increase the cost of a total treatment by 84%, length of stay by 5.1 to 5.4 days and probability of death by 4.67% to 5.5% (Garrett, 2008).

is one of the leading causes of death among hospitalized patients (Alberti et al., 2003). It

As a hospital, quality care should be a priority for patients that are going to be treated for a sickness, or any type of procedure that is going to take place. A lot of times a patient gets an infection while they were at the hospital, on top of being treated for what they original came in for. Health facilities should be environments of healing, which they are, but they also have tons of various types of germs and infections, which grasp onto individuals that have weak immune systems/are sick. Some infections that are at hospitals are Tuberculosis, VRE, VAP, C-Diff, UTI, and MRSA. Preventive measures to stop the spread of the infections is lacking tremendously in the work and aim to provide safety for all patient’s health. The work

Hospital acquired infections are one of the most common complications of care in the hospital setting. Hospital acquired infections are infections that patients acquired during the stay in the hospital. These infections can cause an increase number of days the patients stay in the hospital. Hospital acquired infections makes the patients worse or even causes death. “In the USA alone, hospital acquired infections cause about 1.7 million infections and 99,000 deaths per year”(secondary).

All of the quality indicators are important for hospital quality but the in-patient quality indicators for mortality rates are essential for better care. Research has shown that mortality indicators varying across different hospitals and suggests there could be deficiencies in quality of care that is causing this wide range. Therefore the mortality rates as quality indicators are important to provide better quality of care across our

Mortality rates and morbidity rates have shown significant improvements in countries around the world over a lengthy period. Trends have varied by country and by age, despite common improvements. An analysis of changes in causes of death provides a better understanding of the underlying changes in mortality rates and provides information about potential future improvements. Mortality rates for publicly reported conditions were improving slightly during the period when only processes of care were being reported, but that these improvements slowed or reversed once public reporting of mortality rates began. These findings suggest that public reporting may be necessary, but is clearly not sufficient, to improve patient

Outcome measurements are used to evaluate the health status of patients following the care he/she has received in a given hospital. The measurements look at both the intended and unintended effects such care might have had on the health status of patients and general function. They also help evaluate the level to which a hospital is achieving its goals as they relate to the care being provided to a patients. Outcome measurements usually include traditional measures such as mortality, morbidity, and issues that are related to quality of life. They incorporate patient satisfaction reports related to the healthcare services they have received. These measures are important to patients looking for a hospital as he/she may seek the opinion of persons who have previously received medical care in a given hospital (Jha &Epstein, 2010).

In the article, The Case of the Unhealthy Hospital, written by Anthony R. Kovner, a through description of a struggling hospital, Blake Memorial Hospital, is given. This paper is a SWOT analysis, and addresses the strengths and weaknesses within the hospital, as well as opportunities and threats outside of the hospital and in the surrounding community.

hospitals, 69% of which were at least partially due to errors in patient management. In 2000, the Institute of Medicine published a report that concluded that more people died each year from preventable errors in hospitals than from car accidents, breast cancer, or AIDS.

The unhealthy hospital case is about a hospital named Blake Memorial that has been in a very bad shape, lacks in providing the best quality of care, is in debt, and financially imbalanced. It is important for a healthcare set up to maintain balance in the financial system so the stakeholders and customers who are the patients their interests are met. If the hospital is lacking in providing the best quality of care for its community and the community is in high needs of the care than the CEO’s of the hospitals need to make a change. The patients (customers) look for getting the best services and better results from a hospital and the stakeholder’s looks for better profitable gain from their business by running the hospitals. In this case