Reducing Avoidable Mortality in Hospitals

The Department of Health has introduced a new standardized method for measuring death rates that has taken affect from April 2011. The new method, called the National Summary Hospital-Level Mortality Indicator (SHMI) will calculate the deaths of all admitted patients in all care settings except specialist hospitals. This sixth national conference will introduce the SHMI and will also provide you with other strategies that you can implement to reduce mortality in hospital.