- Community hospitals may have lower mortality rates for cancer surgeries when they're affiliated with a top-ranked cancer center, a U.S. study suggests.
Overall, after taking individual patient and procedure characteristics into consideration, 90-day mortality rates were 13per cent higher at nonaffiliated hospitals, the study found. But once researchers also accounted for hospital characteristics known to affect surgical safety, the difference in mortality rates dropped to 9per cent.
The study included data on mortality outcomes from 2013 to 2016 for patients over 65 covered by Medicare, the government health program. The study wasn't a controlled experiment designed to prove whether or how community hospital affiliations with top-ranked cancer hospitals might direct impact the quality of care or mortality rates.
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