Reducing complications may cost hospitals money

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Reducing complications may cost hospitals money

By Andrew M. Seaman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - U.S. hospitals may have a financial incentive not to implement strategies and techniques that are known to reduce surgery-related complications, according to a new study. The findings do not mean that "any hospital out there is saying, ‘we can make more money if we have more complications,'" said Dr. Atul Gawande, the study's senior author from Brigham and Women's Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston. But Gawande and his colleagues found that a hospital system in the southern U.S. ...

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