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The advent of public reporting of outcomes after intervention for myocardial infarction (heart attack) led to an increase in mortality in Massachusetts and New
by carbocation 9y ago
The advent of public reporting of outcomes after intervention for myocardial infarction (heart attack) led to an increase in mortality in Massachusetts and New York.[1]
1 = https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368858/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4368858/
- fricat1ve 9y agoA better way to make this claim would be to plot the mortality rates for the states over time and show that the rates in those places requiring reporting begin to diverge as the new policy is implemented.
- carbocation 9y agoThey effectively did that: they compared public reporting states with other geographically adjacent states.
- fricat1ve 9y agoThere's nothing like Boston or NYC in the control states. If the effect is as big as they seem to think--a 21% increase in mortality--that should be visible on a plot of deaths over time.