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From the Nov 9, 2009 edition

Health Matters

New standards emerging for quality of health care

By Marion Davis
Contributing Writer

If your father had heart trouble, how would you pick the best hospital to treat him? Would you ask, perhaps, how many cardiac patients each facility treated, how many died, and how well doctors complied with standards such as prescribing beta blockers at discharge? More »

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