title: Choices and tradeoffs: decreasing costs or improving hospital mortality rates.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario. ann.tourangeau@utoronto.ca
authors.forename: Ann E
authors.initials: AE
authors.lastname: Tourangeau
mesh_terms: D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D017598:Efficiency, Organizational; D017052:Hospital Mortality / Q000639:trends; D006761:Hospitals / Q000592:standards*; D006801:Humans; D009741:Nursing Staff, Hospital; D009864:Ontario; D011785:Quality Assurance, Health Care / Q000379:methods*