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Vlad
12-13-2006, 04:48 AM
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TheDenverChannel.com (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4i-0&fd=R&url=http://www.thedenverchannel.com/health/10521215/detail.html&cid=1111927432&ei=ivZ_RcHAMIjMpwLt-82HCw)Usefulness of hospital quality measures questioned (http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=T&ct=us/4-0&fd=R&url=http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx%3Ftype%3DhealthNews%26storyID%3D2 006-12-13T003035Z_01_FOR301792_RTRIDST_0_HEALTH-HEALTH-HOSPITAL-QUALITY-DC.XML%26WTmodLoc%3DSciHealth-C4-Health-3&cid=1111927432&ei=ivZ_RcHAMIjMpwLt-82HCw)
Reuters.uk - 12 hours ago
By Megan Rauscher. NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - How a hospital rates in terms of the quality of care it provides does not appear to be closely linked to patient outcomes, according to a study in this week's Journal of the American Medical Association.
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