Heart Failure Emergency Admission Mortality Ratios, Standardized by Age and Sex

CCGOIS 1.21 from the Government Digital Service provides indirectly age and sex standardized mortality ratios. The data measures deaths occurring within 12 months following a first emergency hospital admission for heart failure in people aged 16 and over. The current version was updated in March 2017.

Use Cases

• Modeling 12-month mortality risk based on emergency admission events for heart failure.
• Benchmarking hospital performance for heart failure care based on standardized mortality ratios.
• Analyzing temporal trends in post-admission survival for a chronic condition.

Strengths

• Data is standardized for age and sex, which facilitates comparative analysis.
• Focuses on a specific, clinically significant event: first emergency admission for heart failure.
• Published under the Open Government Licence, allowing for reuse.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• The last update was in March 2017; data freshness is limited.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service via eu_open_data.

Collection Method

Calculated from hospital admission and mortality records, using the earliest admission date per unique patient identifier.

Time Range

Covers a three-year period, though specific years are not stated.

Freshness

Updated annually; last known update was March 2017.

Geography

Likely covers a region associated with the eu_open_data platform, but specific geography is not stated.