Mass General under scrutiny for high mortality rate in cath lab 1

The Boston Globe is reporting that Massachusetts General Hopsital and St Vincent Hospital in Worcester are being monitored by state officials for high death rates in 2007 in cardiac catheterization patients. At MGH, 43 or 1,543 patients died. In response, the hospitals claim the high rates are due to agressive treatment of exceptionally sick patients.

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