What hospital mortality league tables tell you
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Hospital mortality league tables: influence of place of death.
League tables that rank hospitals according to their death rates are now regularly published in England. The rationale for publication is that differences in death rates may indicate differences in quality of hospital care. Yet a hospital is not only a place for treatment and cure, it is also a place for care of the dying. Currently 55% of all deaths in England occur in NHS hospitals. Provision...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: BMJ
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0959-8138,1468-5833
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.326.7403.1397-b