That’s my impression upon first read too. Cancer specialists like Sloan Kettering and research hospitals like Johns Hopkins likely have higher mortality rates as their patients are of higher risk.
“Cancer specialists like Sloan Kettering and research hospitals like Johns Hopkins likely have higher mortality rates as their patients are of higher risk.”
That was my take on it too. Houston should be at the top of the list as the hospitals in the Texas Medical Center do some of the most difficult medicine in the world.
Actually, the world comes to us for treatment. I don’t think they go to Brownsville.
These are also all Medicare patients and that would have a great deal of effect on the outcomes.
Exactly. That is such a strong effect that the report is useless. My neighborhood hospital has near zero mortality because anyone sick enough to have any chance of dying goes to a real hospital. I would not want to go to my local hospital for an advanced or rare cancer, or for any condition that was uncommon and life threatening.