title: No dead certainties?
abstract: In July the NHS published mortality rates on four operations. Health professionals are still divided on the benefits of publishing these. How the public will understand and use such outcome rates remains uncertain.
authors.forename: Daloni
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Carlisle
mesh_terms: D002755:Choice Behavior; D003256:Community Participation; D013502:General Surgery; D006801:Humans; D033181:Information Dissemination; D009026:Mortality / Q000639:trends*; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology