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CMS releases 30-day mortality rates
Quality Improvement Monitor, June 29, 2007
CMS last week released its first comparison of death rates from heart attack and heart failure, according to United Press International (UPI).
Nearly all U.S. hospitals meet the national average for 30-day mortality from heart attack or heart failure and only 35 hospitals had higher than anticipated heart failure mortality and only seven had higher than anticipated mortality following heart attack, UPI reported.
The data came from death rates of heart attack and heart failure patients who died between July 2005 and June 2006 of any cause, within a month of entering the hospital. The 30-day mortality for heart attack was 16%, and 30-day mortality for heart failure was 11%, UPI said.
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