Search Tag: mortality rates

Executive Health Management

Mortality-rates-lower-at-major-teaching-hospitals

2017 23 May

New research published by JAMA shows that admission to a major teaching hospital was associated with a lower overall 30-day risk of death compared with admission to a nonteaching hospital. Researchers used Medicare data to compare mortality rates in U.S. teaching and nonteaching hospitals for all hospitalisations and for common medical and surgical...Read more

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Acs-nsqip-data-more-accurate-than-administrative-data

2015 30 Jul

Data from the American College of Surgeons National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (ACS NSQIP ® ) are more accurate than administrative data for driving surgical quality improvement in hospitals, according to two new studies presented at the 2015 ACS NSQIP National Conference in Chicago. The first study, conducted by Inova Health System in Virginia,...Read more

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Higher-mortality-for-hospital-patients-with-alcohol-addiction

2015 07 Apr

The mortality of alcohol dependent patients in general hospitals is many times higher than that of patients without alcohol dependency. In addition, they die about 7.6 years earlier on average than hospital patients without a history of alcohol addiction. This is what scientists from the Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy of the University...Read more

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Us-outspends-europe-on-cancer-care-but-mortality-remains-high

2015 04 Mar

A report that presents results “substantially contrary to previous findings” suggests that cancer mortality rates in the United States have only modestly decreased since 1970, even with significant spending on cancer treatment. Compared to Western European countries, the US spent more money, but did not save more lives. Furthermore, the cancer deaths...Read more

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Hospital-for-profit-conversion-no-impact-on-quality-of-care

2014 22 Oct

US hospitals that converted from nonprofit to for-profit status in the 2000s subsequently enjoyed better financial health, but their conversion made no difference in the quality of care provided or mortality rates, according to researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA. Their study examined characteristics of US acute care hospitals...Read more