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The Compendium mortality set publication has now been discontinued, please see the details below.

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The Compendium hospital care set covers the following publications:

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Compendium – Years of life lost 21 Jul 2022

Years of life lost (YLL) is a measure of premature mortality. Its primary purpose is to compare the relative importance of different causes of premature death within a particular population and it can therefore be used by health planners to define priorities for the prevention of such deaths. It can...

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Compendium – Mortality from cervical cancer 21 Jul 2022

To reduce deaths from cervical cancer

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Compendium – Mortality from breast cancer 21 Jul 2022

To reduce deaths from breast cancer

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Compendium - Maternal mortality 21 Jul 2022

To reduce maternal deaths

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Compendium - Deaths at home 21 Jul 2022

The purpose of these indicators is to help improve palliative care and service planning for patients in the terminal stages of life, allowing more of them the choice of dying at home.

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Compendium - Infant mortality 16 Jul 2020

To help reduce the incidence of stillbirths and perinatal, post-neonatal, early neonatal, infant, and neonatal mortality.

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Compendium – LBOI section 13: Tackling the major killers 22 Sep 2015

To monitor the “major killers” in UK health related mortality.

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Compendium - Returning to usual place of residence following hospital treatment 26 Sep 2013

In the absence of routine data on patient levels of function and well-being, a return to usual residence following hospital treatment may act as a proxy for successful outcome of rehabilitation. The category of accommodation as coded in Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) data is used as a proxy for place...