We analysed all cause mortality and disease specific mortality rates for heart disease (in men and women) and breast cancer (only in women).
When low volume institutions have as many residents or interns and registered nurses per 100 beds as high volume institutions, overall mortality for paediatric heart surgery and heart transplants appeared equivalent.
Even dropping dead suddenly on the golf course is less likely, with medical advances almost halving the mortality rate for heart attacks and strokes in a decade.
The administration plans to establish "Medicare spending per beneficiary" as a new measure of hospital performance, just like the mortality rate for heart attack patients and the infection rate for surgery patients.
But CJW Medical Center in Richmond, part of for-profit HCA chain, had stellar numbers: Its six-month mortality rate for heart valve patients was half the expected rate (7.6% versus 13.7%).
However, the mortality rate for heart disease and other causes increases with time.
InMed and 3 M calculated the same mortality rate for heart failure in patients age 65-84, i.e. 7.9%.
A recent prospective study of nearly 60,000 Japanese people with a high intake of fish, followed-up for over 12 years, revealed an inverse association between fish, PUFA consumption, and mortality, especially for heart failure [ 152].
Coupled with this, the mortality rate for heart failure, a main component of chronic conditions, was found to have declined in patients aged 75 years and older between 1997 and 2003 [ 35].
