Death rate measure used to judge hospital quality may be misleading

Tuesday, January 3, 2012 - 14:00 in Health & Medicine

Hospitals, health insurers and patients often rely on patient death rates in hospitals to compare hospital quality. Now a new study by researchers at Yale School of Medicine questions the accuracy of that widely used approach and supports measuring patient deaths over a period of 30 days from admission even after they have left the hospital.

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