Mortality Rates At Rural Hospitals Unusually High

Death rates for medicare beneficiaries being treated at critical access hospitals in rural areas increased from 2002 to 2010, while rates in other hospitals fell, according to new research published in JAMA. The analysis, led by Karen E. Joynt, M.D., M.P.H., of the Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, examined data from over 10 million Medicare patients who experienced a heart attack, pneumonia, or congestive heart failure between 2002 and 2010...
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