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NewsPublic mortality rates indentify extreme performers
Following reports that mortality rates may be a misleading quality indicator comes research that public reporting on percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) fails to provide enough information to Read more...
Mortality rate a misleading quality measure
Despite being widely used as measure for quality, mortality rates may be a misleading quality indicator because hospitals use varied accounting methods, according to a new study published in Read more...
Mortality rates can sway hospital ratings
Hospitals often debate hospital rankings based on patient mortality rates, specifically which hospital is accountable for a death if multiple facilities care for that patient. For example, if a Read more...
Hospitals need better ranking for mortality, readmissions
Following a study that found hospital rankings and mortality rates are statistically imprecise and based on chance comes new research that two hospital ranking methods are only moderately correlated Read more...
Hospital mortality improves 13%
Unadjusted inhospital mortality rates improved 13 percent across 18 diagnosis and procedures from 2008 to 2010, according to a recent HealthGrades report. HealthGrades examined 40 million hospital Read more...
Hospital rankings, mortality rates based on chance, study says
Although more prominent around the time new top-hospitals lists come out, skeptics about hospital rankings again rear their heads. A new study published this week in Pediatrics finds that reported Read more...
Hospital deaths from heart failure slashed in half
Hospital deaths from health failure were cut in half between 2000 and 2007, from 55 deaths to 28 deaths per 1,000 admissions, according to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality statistics Read more...
Hospitals advocate for bargain CT scans
With ongoing debates about inappropriate CT scan use, hospitals are using inexpensive CT scanners on smokers to screen for lung cancer, Kaiser Health News and The Washington Post report. Read more...
MIT: More emergency room spending lowers mortality
It's a hotly contested debate on whether more money equals better care, but a new study in the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics reveals that spending more on emergency room patients can Read more...
More money, fewer deaths, study finds
Perhaps to the dismay of budget holders, a new study published in Health Affairs indicates that more public spending reduces preventable deaths. Researchers looked at 3,000 local public health Read more...
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