| Case in Point | CMRG | Patient Advocacy | OR Manager | DecisionBriefs | Wednesday, June 19, 2013 |
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A recent study from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found that 32 percent of Americans died inside a hospital in 2007, and that the blood infection septicemia accounted for 15 percent of these mortalities. The cost of a hospital death, at more than $26,000, is nearly three times as much as a patient discharged alive. Patients covered by Medicare comprised more than two-thirds of all in-hospital deaths at a total of $12 billion in hospital costs. Interestingly, 31 percent of elderly deaths occurred within a hospital compared to a 34 percent rate for nonelders.| RELATED ARTICLES |
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