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Article: Pennsylvania Mortality Rates Drop for Coronary Surgeries.
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- The Times Leader (Wilkes-Barre, PA)
- Article date:
- May 11, 2002
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Byline: M. Paul Jackson
May 11--WILKES-BARRE, Pa.--The more often doctors perform cardiac surgeries, the better their patients will be.
That's the assessment of an independent state agency, which found that patient mortality rates for coronary bypass surgeries declined as cardiac physicians performed more heart surgeries.
Statewide, mortality rates for coronary surgeries fell 13 percent from 1995 to 2000, according to a study by the Pennsylvania Health Care Cost Containment Council.
"The quality of care provided by Pennsylvania's cardiac surgeons and hospitals ... keeps getting better and better," Marc Volavka, the council's executive ...