Higher death rates in for-profit hospitals

Guest Contributor
June 7, 2002

A Canadian study of extensive US data has concluded that a switch by Canada to for-profit hospitals would result in 2,000 more deaths each year. Led by PJ Devereaux , a cardiologist at McMaster Univ’s Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, the study is a systematic review and meta analysis and based on 15 observational studies involving more than 26,000 hospitals and 38 million patients. Devereaux and his


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