A Surgery Standard Under Fire - The unintended consequences of using 30-day mortality as a performance metric. http://nyti.ms/1wLY64l
@MarkCheetham @LaurenceVick That sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Harder to 'limp patients over the line' for 90 days. But who decides?
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@C7RKY@MarkCheetham although a complex issue, my quest after acting for the Bristol heart families is to see meaningful morbidity data -
@LaurenceVick@MarkCheetham I'd definitely be a fan of that. Many options are not open to us, just because my mum was harmed, but didn't die
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@C7RKY it's different in UK, we don't use ITU to massage figures@LaurenceVick -
@MarkCheetham@LaurenceVick I confess I don't know what ITU is. I'll do some research... thanks Mark. -
@C7RKY Intensive Therapy Unit these beds are really precious in UK@LaurenceVick -
@MarkCheetham@LaurenceVick Oh..sorry. I thought ITU was some sort of middle man, influencing the US figures. Thanks for the clarification.
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