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After the newspaper headlines at the weekend about Jarman's supposed13,000 deaths it is surely very significant that Bruce Keogh, in his signed letter at the beginning of the report, says about the mortality calculations:
"However tempting it may be, it is clinically meaningless and academically reckless to use such statistical measures to quantify actual numbers of avoidable deaths."
Such statistical shroud waving is the very antithesis of the cooly rational approach needed in dealing with the serious clinical problems that occurred in these hospitals.