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Heart attack patients do better in America's “best” hospitals
BMJ 1999; 318 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.318.7180.349 (Published 06 February 1999) Cite this as: BMJ 1999;318:349
- Scott Gottlieb
- New York
Elderly patients who have a myocardial infarction in the United States are more likely to survive if they are admitted to a hospital identified by a popular American magazine as “one of America's best hospitals,” according to a study assessing the veracity of the annual ranking (New England Journal of Medicine 1999;340:286-99, 309-10).
The study looked at 60 US hospitals that had each been identified at least once in the past …
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