Patients and their families may review online hospital death rates for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia. The federal government's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services has posted the statistics at www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov. Also posted are statistics on the percentage of each hospital's patients getting quality care for various illnesses and ten measures of patient satisfaction.
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August 25, 2008
Hospital Death Rates Online
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