Hospital Death Rates See Decade Decline, USA

Sharp declines in the hospital death rates of patients from heart attack and five other leading conditions meant that an estimated 136,000 who would have died had they been hospitalized a decade earlier survived their stays in 2004, according to the latest News and Numbers from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Public Health on October 11th, 2007