Study indicates drop in mortality rates.
Nation's in-hospital risk-adjusted mortality rate improved, on average, 8% from 2003 to 2005. "Quality chasm" between the best and poorest-performing hospitals has grown by approximately 5%. If all hospitals performed at top level across 18 procedures and diagnoses studied, 302,403 lives might have been saved.
D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology