Mortality Among Older Medical Patients at Flagship Hospitals and Their Affiliates.

Siddharth JainPaul R RosenbaumJoseph G ReiterOmar I RamadanAlexander S HillSean HashemiRebecca T BrownRachel R KelzLee A FleisherJeffrey H Silber

Published in: Journal of general internal medicine (2023)

In aggregate, within a hospital referral region, patients treated at the flagship hospital, at affiliates of the flagship hospital, and in the flagship system as a whole, all had lower mortality rates than matched controls outside the flagship system. However, the mortality advantage was larger for flagship hospitals than for their affiliates.

Keyphrases

healthcare
cardiovascular events
acute care
risk factors
adverse drug
primary care
coronary artery disease
cardiovascular disease