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Controlled hospital quality? I figure the best credentialed doctors go to the best hospitals, where patients receive a lot of other care aside from the MD.
by goodluckchuck 2y ago
Controlled hospital quality? I figure the best credentialed doctors go to the best hospitals, where patients receive a lot of other care aside from the MD.
- sebmellen 2y agoThis is the most important question in the thread.
- pcthrowaway 2y agoDid they also control across types of medicine? If the higher-scoring doctors go into types of care which are more competitive, could those practices have lower patient mortality within 7 days? For example, maybe burn unit care is high-mortality and low-barrier, compared to sleep medicine which is low-mortality and high-barrier (I don't know how accurate this is, just providing some hypotheticals for clarity)
- helsinkiandrew 2y agoFrom the article: >The researchers compared outcomes for patients within the same hospitals who were cared for by doctors with different exam scores. This allowed the researchers to eliminate, or at least minimize, the effect of differences in patient populations, hospital resources, and other variations that might influence the odds of patient death or readmission, independent of a doctor’s performance.