Friday, October 09, 2009

Specialty hospitals cherry-pick patients, exaggerate success

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-10/ifor-shc100709.php

Public release date: 7-Oct-2009
Contact: Barry List
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences
Specialty hospitals cherry-pick patients, exaggerate success, says INFORMS meeting paper
California cardiac care hospitals studied in INFORMS annual meeting paper

Although many specialized hospitals deliver better and faster services in cardiac care and other specialties, a paper being presented at the annual meeting of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS®) maintains that these hospitals cherry-pick patients to achieve these results, and that average patients actually receive worse care.

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