Study: Hospitals earn big bucks when surgeries go wrong-politico: When patients suffer from complications on the operating table, hospitals reap huge profits, according to a new study to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.“We’ve known for a while that we’re paying for quantity instead of quality, but the magnitude of the numbers behind what that meant has never been articulated,” Dr. Atul Gawande, one of the study’s authors, said in a phone interview. “What we found is they’re eye-popping.”
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
Study: Hospitals earn big bucks when surgeries go wrong
Study: Hospitals earn big bucks when surgeries go wrong-politico: When patients suffer from complications on the operating table, hospitals reap huge profits, according to a new study to be published Wednesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.“We’ve known for a while that we’re paying for quantity instead of quality, but the magnitude of the numbers behind what that meant has never been articulated,” Dr. Atul Gawande, one of the study’s authors, said in a phone interview. “What we found is they’re eye-popping.”
