Patient safety

Patients eight times more likely to die following major surgery at outlier hospitals

By 2020-11-19T13:08:00

Surgical scissors

Death rates for a major emergency abdominal surgery are almost eight times higher at some outlier hospitals compared with top performers, a national report has found.

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