Mortality rate calculations are 'highly inappropriate and contentious'

2007-04-26T16:53:04

Anyone picking up last week's Daily Telegraph will have seen the shock-horror headline on hospital mortality rates. This was typical media hype that did nothing to assist the discussion about encouraging improvement in the NHS, nor how we reduce inequalities across the country.

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