Top hospitals boast a lower death rate
Patient Safety Monitor Alert, October 22, 2008
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A new study shows that the death rate is 70% lower at top-ranked U.S. hospitals than at the lowest-ranked hospitals, reports The Washington Post. The study, the 11th annual HealthGrades Hospital Quality in America study, examined 41 million patient records over the course of three years from 5,000 hospitals across the country. Additionally, the study shows that if all hospitals performed in the way that the top performers did, more than 200,000 Medicare deaths could have been prevented.
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