Did you know this about your surgeons death rate statistics?

Asked by JLeslie (65424) December 11th, 2016 from iPhone

Not just surgeons, but in general about hospital care. The surgery goes bad, or your relative will likely die within hours or days, and they will want the patient transferred to hospice to get that death stat on hospice and not the surgeon or the general hospital statistics. Often, it’s in papers that you the deciding relative have to sign off on in your moment of despair regarding your loved one who is suddenly dying, and you can choose not to sign it. I say suddenly, because in my opinion it’s totally different if someone has been terminal for a while, or very very old, and in the final weeks or months of life they utilize hospice.

I think hospice care is a great service, and this is not a comment about hospice at all. This is mostly a comment about how a surgeon or hospital can alter survival rates of various medical events