Findings from a new report (Association of Hospital Spending Intensity With Mortality and Readmission Rates in Ontario Hospitals ), published in The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), shows patients treated at higher-spending hospitals in Ontario, Canada, had associated drops in death rates and readmissions. The objective of the study, by the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences in Toronto, was to assess whether acute care patients admitted to higher-spending hospitals have lower mortality and readmissions. The authors concluded that among Ontario hospitals, higher spending intensity was associated with lower mortality, readmissions, and cardiac event rates.
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