title: 'Hospitals of excellence' outshine others in mortality, complications.
abstract: The latest Hospital Quality and Clinical Excellence study from HealthGrades, Inc. finds that 152,966 lives could have been saved and 21,896 complications avoided. Leadership by upper management remains a critical element for quality improvement. Leading hospitals regularly use multidiscipline approach and implement new strategies such as rapid response teams.
mesh_terms: D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology