Day: June 9, 2016

80 Percent of Admissions, Deaths & Costs Attributed to 7 Emergency Surgeries

In a paper recently released by the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a disturbing pattern was discovered about surgeries and deaths in hospitals across the United States. Researchers found that 80% of all deaths and costs experienced by patients were derived from a list of seven common surgeries. The researchers with JAMA analyzed […]