TY - JOUR T1 - To what extent are inpatient deaths preventable? The author's reply JF - BMJ Quality & Safety JO - BMJ Qual Saf SP - 607 LP - 608 DO - 10.1136/bmjqs-2013-001857 VL - 22 IS - 7 AU - Helen Hogan AU - Frances Healey AU - Graham Neale AU - Richard Thomson AU - Charles Vincent AU - Nick Black Y1 - 2013/07/01 UR - http://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/22/7/607.2.abstract N2 - We are pleased that findings from our Preventable Incidents, Survival and Mortality Study (PRISM) study1 are consistent with Nash and Quinn's clinical experience. They raise the important point that published variation in hospital standardised mortality ratios (HSMRs) and its recent modified version, the summary hospital-level mortality indicator, between acute trusts and within individual trusts over time, is greater … ER -