Jarman B, Gault S, Alves B, Hider A, Dolan S, Cook A, Hurwitz B, Iezzoni LI. Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data. British Medical Journal. 1999 Jun 5;318(7197):1515-1520.

Learnings from a study done to ascertain hospital inpatient mortality in England and to determine which factors best explain variation in standardized hospital death ratios. The authors conclude that the percentage of total admissions classified as emergencies is the most powerful predictor of variation in mortality.

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A matter of life and death: Increasing reliability and quality to reduce mortality and improve end of life care. London, England: NHS Modernisation Agency; May 2004.

A pamphlet published by the NHS Modernisation Agency in the United Kingdom regarding work on reducing hospital mortality through the Pursuing Perfection intiative.

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Seagroatt V, Goldacre M. Hospital mortality league tables: Influence of place of death. British Medical Journal. Mar 2004;328:1235-1236.

This article explains mortality league tables in the UK which rank hospitals according to their death rates, and how they may be misleading when used to rate the quality of a hospital without considering other factors.

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