Differences in death rates in English hospitals. Effects of admission rates may have been understated
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Differences in death rates in English hospitals. Effects of admission rates may have been understated
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Explaining differences in English hospital death rates using routinely collected data.BMJ. 1999 Jun 5;318(7197):1515-20. doi: 10.1136/bmj.318.7197.1515. BMJ. 1999. PMID: 10356004 Free PMC article.
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