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Municipality North Bay Category Medical conditions - Death rates Select a different category   LEGEND: BLUE Better than the Ontario average for the selected year. WHITE Not different from the Ontario average for the selected year. RED Worse than the Ontario average for the selected year. - No data were available for this year. DEFINITIONS: Rank All institutions were ranked on each indicator based on their scores, where the highest rank of 1 corresponds to the highest score out of 100. Volume indicators were not ranked since they have threshold requirements. Score The score indicates how well a hospital performs on a given indicator, based on its risk adjusted rate where a score of 100 is the highest. Risk adjusted rate Measures the observed rate adjusted for differences in patients’ age, sex, and the presence of complications. Observed rate Measures the outcome of interest compared to population at risk. Ontario average/total This value is the risk adjusted average (Ontario average) or total (Ontario total) of an indicator across all acute care hospitals in Ontario. Death in low mortality DRG Deaths among patients that are considered unlikely to die in the hospital. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed (per thousand) 6.5 7.8 6.5 6.1 6.2 7.6 4.4 2.6 1.5 0.5 Risk adjusted (per thousand) 4.7 5.9 4.8 3.8 4.4 5.7 2.5 0.7 - - Ontario average (per thousand) - - - - - - - - - - Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Failure to Rescue Deaths in patients that developed specified complications of care during hospitalization. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed (per thousand) 197.4 246.6 177.2 192.3 236.0 154.9 223.3 171.1 232.6 264.7 Risk adjusted (per thousand) 121.2 195.0 121.8 120.2 178.2 87.0 181.5 115.7 225.5 284.2 Ontario average (per thousand) 151.9 148.2 154.5 136.4 134.2 145.9 147.4 138.5 190.4 198.1 Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality rate Deaths from heart attacks. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank - - - - - View View View View View Score - - - - - View View View View View Observed - - - - - 11.96% 11.96% 10.06% 9.71% 9.86% Risk adjusted - - - - - 15.46% 16.20% 13.71% 16.33% 16.84% Ontario average - - - - - 12.95% 13.77% 13.91% 16.87% 14.73% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Congestive heart failure (CHF) mortality rate Deaths due to heart failure. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed 8.72% 12.94% 12.72% 11.36% 8.29% 10.53% 17.86% 10.96% 10.45% 11.67% Risk adjusted 11.19% 15.10% 14.39% 13.06% 10.73% 12.27% 19.16% 12.40% 28.82% 16.37% Ontario average 11.38% 11.23% 11.11% 10.17% 10.09% 10.25% 10.49% 10.06% 12.31% 11.47% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Acute Stroke mortality rate Deaths from acute strokes. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed 11.43% 22.88% 22.78% 19.78% 22.73% 26.97% 27.72% 12.70% 19.51% 28.21% Risk adjusted 17.40% 27.58% 28.11% 24.90% 27.46% 33.03% 30.27% 17.26% 20.87% 30.93% Ontario average 21.61% 21.01% 20.61% 19.64% 19.84% 21.55% 22.55% 21.41% 23.34% 23.6% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Gastrointestinal hemorrhage mortality rate Deaths due to bleeding from the esophagus, stomach, small intestine or colon. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed 2.47% 2.30% 7.06% 2.91% 7.04% 3.65% 2.46% 3.85% 0.84% 11.69% Risk adjusted 4.69% 2.96% 7.18% 3.19% 6.68% 3.49% 3.71% 4.65% 1.37% 15.29% Ontario average 4.11% 3.74% 3.07% 3.28% 3.09% 3.75% 4.15% 3.91% 4.66% 5.44% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Hip fracture mortality rate. Deaths due to hip fractures. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed 12.50% 9.84% 12.73% 15.79% 14.75% 10.61% 15.00% 13.79% 13.21% 13.04% Risk adjusted 14.51% 11.34% 15.12% 18.11% 16.96% 12.92% 15.92% 14.34% 17.65% 34.05% Ontario average 8.05% 7.69% 7.31% 6.61% 6.92% 7.19% 8.14% 7.38% 11.87% 9.28% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Pneumonia mortality rate Death due to a condition involving an infection in the lungs. Lower rates are more desirable. The results for the Pneumonia mortality rate indicator may be affected by a potential data quality issue, owing to miscoding of activities at the hospital level. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank View View View View View View View View View View Score View View View View View View View View View View Observed 11.35% 14.67% 11.36% 3.91% 5.59% 6.93% 11.92% 6.00% 14.47% 4.84% Risk adjusted 16.65% 19.99% 17.21% 9.94% 11.44% 12.99% 16.15% 11.44% 37.54% 9.88% Ontario average 16.87% 16.63% 16.44% 16.08% 15.59% 16.64% 17.31% 17.16% 17.54% 16.84% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario Acute myocardial infarction (AMI) mortality rate (without transfers) Deaths from heart attacks; excludes patients transferred from another short term hospital. Lower rates are more desirable. MEASURE Year* 97-98 98-99 99-00 00-01 01-02   02-03 03-04 04-05   05-06 06-07 Rank - - - - - View View View View View Score - - - - - View View View View View Observed - - - - - 33.33% 21.43% 0.00% 10.22% 12.00% Risk adjusted - - - - - 32.39% 24.87% 3.67% 18.18% 21.15% Ontario average - - - - - 17% 18.05% 18.18% 18.53% 16.6% Compare this indicator against other municipalities in Ontario * Note: It is not possible to compare data from 1997-2001 with data from 2002-2005 because of the change in coding classification.

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