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Consumer Reports provides comparison of aggressive vs. conservative hospital care.(Report)

Publication: HealthFacts
Publication Date: 01-JUN-08
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access

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The "more is better" approach to American health care has been challenged consistently over the last 15 years by research compiled by two Dartmouth Medical School physicians. As reported in previous issues of HealthFacts, these researchers have studied the care given to Medicare patients in a...

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...the last two years of life and shown that more tests, more procedures, more specialist care, more days in the hospital do not lead to longer life or a better quality of life.

Now Consumer Reports has put the Dartmouth findings in a consumer-friendly format that will help Americans determine whether a hospital in their part of the country is likely to deliver aggressive or conservative care. Nearly 3,000 hospitals across the U.S. are included in the new format, which will be available in the July 2008 issue of Consumer Reports and is...

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