The USRDS excludes deaths due to AIDS, accidents unrelated to treatment, and street drugs. Are patients who die of these causes excluded from mortality and hospitalization calculations entirely?
In the case of AIDS deaths, the patients are excluded from mortality and hospitalization statistics entirely. Once we receive a death notification form listing AIDS as a cause of death, that patients death, hospitalizations, and days at risk are retrospectively excluded from all calculations. However, in the case of patients who die of street drugs or accidents unrelated to treatment, only the deaths are excluded. The hospitalizations and days at risk for patients who died of street drugs or accidents unrelated to treatment remain and are used in calculations. Please note that the death notification form allows five possible causes of death. A death is considered to be due to AIDS, accidents, or street drugs when AIDS, accidents, or street drugs are listed in any position (1 through 5) on the death notification form.
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