Investing more in inpatient care relative to longer-term nursing facilities may help reduce mortality rates, while downstream spending at skilled nursing facilities found to be a strong predictor of mortality.
Researchers assessed 30-day survival for older patients.
Older patients’ hospital survival is slightly higher when their physician is younger, researchers say.
This is compared to mortality rates for Medicare patients treated by US-trained doctors.
This may be due to gaps in medical knowledge about which patients need more attention, researcher says.
There is a slightly increased maternal mortality ratio for weekend deliveries, researchers say.
There was a decrease of 0.1 year in life expectancy from 2014 to 2015 in US population.
Although new threats have emerged, the number of patients dying from infections has stayed fairly stable.
This study shows that low fitness levels have a greater effect than even high cholesterol and blood pressure on overall early mortality.
