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13 000 needless deaths?
Surfing the wave of misrepresented hospital death rates—a reticence of the well informed?
BMJ 2013; 347 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.f5367 (Published 05 September 2013) Cite this as: BMJ 2013;347:f5367- Eric J Will, retired nephrologist1
- 1Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, Leeds, UK
- wilesroyd{at}aol.com
There seems to have been a reticence on the part of the well informed to establish an appropriate interpretation of the statistics of hospital mortality in the NHS after the Mid Staffs furore. Spiegelhalter goes a good way towards that understanding in his feature.1 The default has allowed a media and politicians’ field day in casting aspersions on NHS performance, with benefits to both media hyperbole and the …
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