Top hospitals have 27 percent lower mortality
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 - 21:28
in Health & Medicine
Medicare patients treated at top-rated hospitals nationwide across the most common Medicare diagnoses and procedures are 27 percent less likely to die, on average, than those admitted to all other hospitals. read more
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