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Hospital mortality rates 'should not be smoke alarm' for poor quality

By 2015-07-14T23:30:00

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Source: Dominique Cappronnier

The NHS should not use hospital-wide mortality rates as a ‘smoke alarm’ to identify poor quality hospitals, a major study has concluded.

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