Repeat heart attack and early death linked to hospitals with low care scores

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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2019/03/190326160450.htm

Their study, published in the American Journal of Cardiology, compared care scores in the New Jersey Hospital Performance Reports with one-month and one-year rates of readmission for heart attack or death due to cardiovascular causes.

Researchers reviewed the electronic medical records of more than 160,000 patients at 80 New Jersey acute care hospitals from 2004 to 2015.