The study, published yesterday in JAMA Internal Medicine, used Medicare data from 6.7 million hospitalizations across 2,322 hospitals.
Findings indicated that mortality rates for the three publically reported conditions predicted overall medical and surgical mortality, though the correlation was weaker for larger hospitals and teaching hospitals.
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