Table 3:

Acute care hospital admissions from the Discharge Abstract Database with a documented in-hospital death that were matched with a Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database record

Outcome	Mortality indicator

	AMI		Stroke		Major surgery

	2011/12 n = 2540	2016/17 n = 2315	2011/12 n = 3320	2016/17 n = 3275	2011/12 n = 4395	2016/17 n = 4700
Absolute no. of in-hospital deaths

Matched to a CVSD death record	2430	2210	3180	3130	4220	4550

Not matched to a CVSD death record	110	105	140	145	175	150

Relative proportion of in-hospital deaths, %

Matched to a CVSD death record	95.7	95.5	95.8	95.6	96.0	96.8

Not matched to a CVSD death record	4.3	4.5	4.2	4.4	4.0	3.2

Note: AMI = acute myocardial infarction, CVSD = Canadian Vital Statistics Death Database.