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When is it a good time to go to the hospital? When the doctors are being watched

Dan Gorenstein Mar 21, 2017
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When is it a good time to go to the hospital? When the doctors are being watched

Dan Gorenstein Mar 21, 2017
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Want to know when it’s a good time to go to the hospital? Seems it’s when the doctors are being watched. Every few years the accrediting agency known as the Joint Commission conducts random hospital inspections. A new study out in the journal JAMA Internal Medicine finds that mortality rates drop when the inspectors show up for their surprise visit.

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