Question

Exercise 7.10 During the first quarter of 20XX, Community Hospital had 24 inpatient deaths, six of whom were autopsied. Of the 24 deaths, two were coroner's cases-one of whom was autopsied by the hospital pathologist (included in the six autopsies) and one removed to be autopsied by the coroner. Additionally, these were also autopsied: one patient who died in the hospital's skilled nursing facility two days after discharge from the hospital, a patient who died in the ESD after a motor vehicle accident, one outpatient who died in the physical therapy department after a fall, and a former patient who died at home while under the care of the hospital's hospice department. Calculate the adjusted hospital rate for Community Hospital for this quarter. Round to two decimal places. Adjusted hospital rate:

Answer 1

The calculation for adjusted hospital autopsy rate is:

Gross autopsy= a/ d

Gross autopsy rate = ( a/d) ×100

Where

a is total inpatient autopsies

D is total inpatient deaths

Hence,

Gross autopsy= 6/24 = 0.25

Gross autopsy rate = (6/24)×100= 25%