NHSOF 5.1: Venous Thromboembolism Mortality Rate per 100,000 Adult Hospital Admissions

An indicator measuring the number of patients who die from a venous thromboembolism (VTE) related event within 90 days of hospital discharge, expressed as a rate per 100,000 adult admissions. The data is provided by the Government Digital Service under the UK's Open Government Licence. The current version was updated in February 2017.

Use Cases

• Benchmarking hospital performance on VTE prevention based on the mortality rate indicator.
• Tracking temporal trends in VTE-related mortality following hospital discharge.
• Evaluating the effectiveness of VTE prevention, detection, and treatment protocols in clinical settings.

Strengths

• Provides a specific, standardized metric (rate per 100,000 adult admissions) for cross-institution comparison.
• Focuses on a clinically significant outcome (death within 90 days post-discharge).
• Data is sourced from an official government service (Government Digital Service).

Limitations

• Row count and column-level documentation are absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified as the next version was due in February 2018.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

Government Digital Service

Collection Method

Likely compiled from hospital admission and mortality records.

Time Range

Temporal coverage is not specified in the input.

Freshness

The current version was updated in February 2017, with a next version due in February 2018.

Geography

Geography is not specified, but the data source suggests a UK (NHS) context.