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