Table 6 Estimated preventable years of life lost (PrYLL) in the 17 patients with possible or likely preventability of an in-patient death evaluated by two independent reviewers (in the year 2017) in Vaasa Central Hospital, Finland. Frequency of a dichotomous classification (less than 3 months / 3 months or more) and a calculation of estimated years of life lost
Class of preventability | Dichotomous classification | PrYLL | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
< 3 months | ≥ 3 months | PrYLL [80] | PrYLL [75] | ||||||
Reviewer | n | % | n | % | n | % | years | years | |
Reviewer1 | possible | 10 | 4.0% | 8 | 3.2% | 2 | 0.8% | 47.7 | 47.3 |
Reviewer2 | possible | 9 | 3.6% | 6 | 2.4% | 3 | 1.2% | 50.9 | 47.0 |
Reviewer1 | likely | 1 | 0.4% | 0 | 0.0% | 1 | 0.4% | 4.0 | 0.0 |
Reviewer2 | likely | 4 | 1.6% | 3 | 1.2% | 1 | 0.4% | 4.5 | 0.3 |
mean of ‘possible’ | 9.5 | 3.8% | 7 | 2.8% | 2.5 | 1.0% | 49.3 | 47.1 | |
mean of ‘likely’ | 2.5 | 1.0% | 1.5 | 0.6% | 1 | 0.4% | 4.3 | 0.1 | |