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Using hospital mortality rates to judge hospital performance: a bad idea that just won’t go away

BMJ 2010; 340 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.c2016 (Published 20 April 2010) Cite this as: BMJ 2010;340:c2016

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