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Article: OSHPD and PBGH Announce Public Reporting of Heart Bypass Surgery Mortality Rates Helps Consumers Make Health Care Decisions.
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- Business Wire
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- April 25, 2005
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Consumers will now have more information to support critical health care decisions, thanks to a new report issued by the Office of Statewide Health Planning and Development (OSHPD) that reports heart bypass surgery mortality rates and health care quality ratings for 77 participating hospitals in 2000-2002. The overall in-hospital death rate of 2.61 percent among participating hospitals compares to a death rate of 3.35 percent among hospitals not participating in the study during the same three-year period.
Of the 77 hospitals that voluntarily reported, 60 performed "as expected," 8 performed "better than expected," and 9 performed "worse than ...