For Hospitals, Lowered Death Rates May Not Mean More Readmissions
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Hospital readmission rates are used in part to judge the quality of a hospital's care, and some experts have worried that hospitals who serve the sickest patients may be unfairly penalized because they'll likely have higher readmission rates.
Now, new U.S. research says these two factors do not go hand-in-hand.
After reviewing data on almost 3 million hospital admissions for people...
