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Does anyone know of any such studies that have evaluated US Hospitals/Clinical Ctrs.? Studies that include things such as Morbidity/Mortality by disease type & severity, length of hospital stay, accuracy of diagnoses (i.e. confirmation by post-mortem etc), cost of diagnostic tests/procedures, rates of nosocomial infections, bang for the buck etc?
I ask because there is so much talk about reputations and I am unaware of how these reputations are formed save for NIH/NSF research dollars, word of mouth, US N&WR (mainly another word of mouth). I know studies show better surgical outcomes at large volume ctrs and also of better post MI outcomes at nationally ranked cardiology ctrs, but I dont know of any that allows a ranking to be done.
I ask because there is so much talk about reputations and I am unaware of how these reputations are formed save for NIH/NSF research dollars, word of mouth, US N&WR (mainly another word of mouth). I know studies show better surgical outcomes at large volume ctrs and also of better post MI outcomes at nationally ranked cardiology ctrs, but I dont know of any that allows a ranking to be done.