Specialty hospitals cherry-pick patients, exaggerate success, says INFORMS meeting paper
Wednesday, October 7, 2009 - 11:28
in Health & Medicine
Although many specialized hospitals deliver better and faster services in cardiac care and other specialties, a paper being presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) maintains that these hospitals cherry-pick patients to achieve these results, and that average patients actually receive worse care.