Counterintuitive: Inpatient Mortality is Not a Good Metric To Judge Hospital Performance

A new study shows how the measure is biased against safety-net institutions.
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Nice discussion! While I agree that transitioning patients to hospice care is unlikely to be primarily intended as a way to "game the system" and make mortality numbers look better, that doesn't mean that gaming the system in other ways isn't happening.