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• n  the ratio of deaths in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 per year

• deathrate
• mortality
• mortality rate
• fatality rate

News & Articles

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• Docs may cherry-pick cases after death rate reports
  By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors may avoid treating the sickest heart patients with a common procedure after their hospitals are marked as having high death rates, says a new study that points to a possible unintended consequence of transparency. Researchers found the severity of cases treated at four Massachusetts hospitals was lower after they were labeled "outliers" for ...
  June 20, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• Is ‘transparency’ preventing sicker patients from getting common procedure?
  NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Doctors may avoid treating the sickest heart patients with a common procedure after their hospitals are marked as having high death rates, says a new study that points to a possible unintended consequence of transparency. R...
  June 20, 2013 - MedCity News