Table 4 Diagnoses with a consistent definition and >10% mortality rate in 1988 - 1989

Acute respiratory distress syndrome

Surgery for GI bleeding

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Surgery for GI obstruction

Pneumonia (viral)

Surgery for GI perforation

Cardiac arrest

Surgery for aortic dissection

Congestive heart failure

Surgery for intracranial hemorrhage

Sepsis, non-urinary tract

Surgery for subarachnoid hemorrhage

Sepsis, urinary tract

Surgery for multiple trauma, including the head

GI bleeding (varices)

Surgery for GI cancer

GI Bleeding (upper, non-variceal)

Intracerebral hemorrhage

Stroke/Cerebrovascular accident

Head trauma with either chest, pelvis,

or spine injury

Seizures

Acute myocardial infarction