Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In a new study, the standardized mortality ratio was five times higher for lung transplant recipients compared ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Aims: To determine the standardised mortality ratio (SMR) corresponding to different causes of death in workers from polyvinyl chloride ...

A team from the University of Sheffield's School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) has developed a new index to measure hospital mortality rates that has been accepted for use by the Department ...

Mortality rates are a poor measure of the quality of hospital care and should not be a trigger for public inquiries such as the investigation at the Mid Staffordshire hospital, argue experts in a ...