Mortality Rate - Cholecystectomy non laparoscopic Enlarge This is the mortality rate at a particular hospital for patients who had a cholecystectomy. Surgery to remove the gallbladder is called cholecystectomy (chol-e-cys-tec-to-my). In the traditional procedure, called open cholecystectomy, the gallbladder is removed through a 5-to-8-inch-long incision in the patient's abdomen. The incision is made just below the ribs on the right side and extends to just below the waist. This data has been risk adjusted. Risk adjustment is a process of accounting for differences in patient population based on many parameters such as age, sex, severity of illness, risk of mortality, and other attributes. Risk adjustment allows us to fairly compare hospitals across a wide range of healthcare measures. This measure of quality should be used in conjunction with other measures to gain a more complete understanding of the quality picture. Reference: [2]

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