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NewsPost-surgical inpatient deaths plummet
Although hospitals performed more surgeries between 1996 and 2006, the number of inpatient post-surgical deaths dropped significantly, according to an analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample, Read more...
Leapfrog safe practices survey may have captured 'excessive noise'
A survey of hospital performance conducted by the Leapfrog Group in 2006 may suffer from "excessive noise" according to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. The Safe Read more...
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