Email Updates
Commentary
Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success.
Shojania KG, Forster AJ. Hospital mortality: when failure is not a good measure of success. CMAJ. 2008;179(2):153-7. doi:10.1503/cmaj.080010.
Copy Citation
Download Citation
July 30, 2008
Shojania KG, Forster AJ. CMAJ. 2008;179(2):153-7.
This commentary discusses the limitations of using hospital standardized mortality ratios as a measure of the quality of care, as illustrated in a recent study of preventable deaths after cardiac surgery.
