Death rates not best judge of hospital quality, researchers say
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 - 05:10
in Health & Medicine
Inpatient mortality rates, used by organisations to issue 'report cards' on the quality of individual U.S. hospitals, are a poor gauge of how well hospitals actually perform and should be abandoned in favour of measures that more accurately assess patient harms and the care being provided, argue patient safety experts in a paper out today...