Sun,15 January 2012
A compelling University of Michigan Health System study made assumptions about the role of complications in distinguishing good and bad hospitals. The report in New England Journal of Medicine confirms that serious complications are common after major surgery - about 1 in 6 patients - but the study shows what drives hospital mortality is failure to rescue. Low mortality hospitals have medical teams with the ability to rescue patients by recognizing and heading off potentially catastrophic complications such as deep wound infections, pneumonia, kidney failure, blood clots, and strokes. In spite of |
