'Report cards' don't reflect preventable bypass deaths

Monday, June 9, 2008 - 15:49 in Health & Medicine

While death rate "report cards" indicated low mortality rates after heart bypass surgery, a review of in-hospital deaths in heart bypass patients at Ontario, Canada hospitals found that one-third might have been prevented, researchers report in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.

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