Women's health technical summary : Hospital report 2006 : Acute care

For the diagnosis code selection in the numerator for the Women’s Health indicators (other than the adverse events related indicators), we want to capture diagnoses of interest as a type M (and not a type M and 2). [...] For the diagnoses of interest, it is more appropriate for us to use the sixth-digit subclassification in Folio, which identifies the phase in which the patient is receiving care and whether or not delivery occurs within that episode of care. [...] For all the denominator criteria (except for the Labour and Delivery section), patients were included in the diagnostically defined groups if the diagnosis of interest was coded as a type M diagnosis. [...] For example, in the scenario described in the above paragraph, the readmission would be assigned to Hospital A. •. Adverse Events are attributed to the hospital treating the patient when the adverse event diagnosis developed. [...] Rate of hospital readmissions within 14 days of discharge in women undergoing labour and delivery for all deliveries and stratified by type of delivery (vaginal, caesarean section) - attributed to the first hospital in the episode of care.