New study finds ability to rescue patients after complications best predictor of hospital mortality
1,641 views · Published 5 October 2009 · 3:16 · Indexed 29 October 2026
Channel: Michigan Medicine · 2009 · Science & Technology
Hospital mortality rates following in-patient surgery vary widely across the country. Previously, researchers attributed this to differing post-surgical complication rates at the highest mortality hospitals versus the lowest. A new national study at the University of Michigan, published in the current issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, demonstrates that this is not the case.
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