Lower rates are desirable.
The risk-adjusted rate for a facility is calculated by dividing the observed number of in-hospital deaths for each facility by the expected number of in-hospital deaths for the facility and multiplying by the Canadian average in-hospital death rate.
Unit of analysis: Episode of care
An episode of care refers to all contiguous inpatient hospitalizations and same-day surgery visits. For episodes with transfers within or between facilities, transactions were linked regardless of diagnoses. For further details, please see the CCQI General Methodology Notes (PDF).
Number of hospitalization episodes for patients age 18 and older who underwent a CABG and AVR surgery
Number of hospitalization episodes in the denominator that resulted in an in-hospital death within 30 days of CABG and AVR surgery
Comments
This indicator belongs to a suite of Cardiac Care quality indicators (CCQI) that provided pan-Canadian comparable information on outcomes related to selected cardiac interventions. The goal was to support monitoring and quality improvement in cardiac care.
More information on the CCQI Report is available on our Cardiac Care web page.
Publicly available indicator results are based on 3 years of pooled data. Results for 2018–2019 to 2020–2021 are the last that will be published for the CCQI indicators. Note that 3-year pooled results for 2017–2018 to 2019–2020 are not available.
Indicator results based on 1 year of data between 2013–2014 and 2020–2021 are also available: