Britain’s deadliest maternity units – hospitals with worst infant mortality rates revealed in disturbing new data

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-14546569/Hospitals-worst-baby-death-rates-data-NHS-maternity.html

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  2. These rankings are meaningless without the number of live births to compare it to

  4. Breaking news just in: when looking at an average, there are numbers above and below it.

    Death in childbirth is awful and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone, but this is a classic case of the DM taking it all out of context to spin a ‘shocking’ headline

  5. I’m guessing it’s the hospitals with the highest rates of DNA (Did Not Attend) for pre-delivery appointments and/or patients who choose to have children with their close relatives?

  6. My first question reading this garbage headline (article isn’t as bad) was, how far are they away from “average”? They have a scary red chart that says +/-5%, but no real indication of what that means. Claims apparently, but claims for what and what do claims prove really – people will claim for anything even if the hospital wasn’t at fault?

    Lets looks at child mortality rates because the article states the fatality rate at a “poor” hospital is 4.98 per 1k (0.498%), while the average is 4 (0.4%) that’s a 0.098% difference, less than 0.1%.

    What is the standard deviation here? 0.03% That would make sense as a hospital with a 0.498% rate would then be 3 standard deviations away from mean – which is something worth looking into for improvements, but hardly scary.

    Pure fear mongering headline, especially given the complexities of medicine, which the article itself admits – these are hospitals in poor areas with non-english communities – exactly those that are less likely to follow sound medical advice during pregnancy.

  7. Are all hospitals the same? It seems like some are specialist hospitals for atypical births. These cannot be compared with a general hospital nor can non-general hospitals be compared if there is a specialist centre in one area but not the other.

  8. Hospitals in areas with a high level of inbreeding cultures have the highest rates of infant mortality, who would have guessed.

    But we have to keep quiet about this.

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