The study, published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine, used Medicare data from 6.7 million hospitalizations across 2,322 hospitals.
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Findings indicated that mortality rates for the three publically reported conditions predicted overall medical and surgical mortality, though the correlation was weaker for larger hospitals and teaching hospitals.
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