Specialty Cardiac Hospitals May Improve Patient Outcomes, Study Suggests
This article was originally published in The Gray Sheet
Executive Summary
Specialty cardiac hospitals produce slightly better outcomes than general hospitals for heart attack and heart failure patients, but more research is needed to understand which practice patterns produce the best results, a recent study shows
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