http://dailydose.righthealth.com We feature the one health item you simply cannot afford to miss. Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:03:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://dailydose.righthealth.com/health-insurance/hospital-death-rates-for-pneumonia-heart-attack-now-online/ http://dailydose.righthealth.com/health-insurance/hospital-death-rates-for-pneumonia-heart-attack-now-online/#comments Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:35:08 +0000 Steven http://dailydose.kosmix.com/?p=325 The US Department for Health and Human Services (HHS) is now making death rates for pneumonia, heart attack, and heart failure at US hospitals available online at their Hospital Compare website. The website was launched in 2005 in hopes that hospitals will improve quality of care if they are able to compare themselves with other hospitals. According to HHS, the mortality rates have been adjusted to take into account how sick each patient is. Is this information helpful to patients? Some believe that death rates don’t necessarily measure the quality of care hospitals provide. However, most agree that giving the public more information on hospital performance is, in general, a good thing. Full story.

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