Surgical Deaths Linked to Handling of Complications - Forbes.com

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Staffing and hospital culture play a role, expert contends

(HealthDay News) -- The way that a hospital handles the complications of surgery, not just the rate of those complications, determines the hospital's surgical death rate, a new study has found.

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