Death And Complication Rates Vary Greatly Among US Hospitals, Study Suggests.

reports patients at the “worst” hospitals in the United States are three times more likely to die and 13 times more likely to have complications than patients at the “best” hospitals in the US, according to a study published in PLOS One. Researchers reviewed information from 22 million hospital admissions and found “considerable variation in outcomes” depending on the hospital that patients visited. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/14/business/hospitals-death-rates-quality-vary-widely.html?_r=0