Lower-cost hospital care is not always lower in quality

Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 06:21 in Health & Medicine

The costs that hospitals incur in treating patients vary widely and do not appear to be strongly associated either with the quality of care patients receive or their risk of dying within 30 days, according to a report in the February 22 issue of Archives of Internal Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals...

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