Mortality rates are an unreliable metric for assessing hospital quality, study finds
Wednesday, December 22, 2010 - 18:00
in Health & Medicine
Is quality in the eye of the beholder? Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital have found wide disparities among four common measures of hospital-wide mortality rates, with competing methods yielding both higher- and lower-than-expected rates for the same Massachusetts hospitals during the same year.