Health News from Medical News Today: Surgery Deaths Drop Nationwide For High-Risk Operations

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Surgery Deaths Drop Nationwide For High-Risk Operations 2 Jun 2011, 6:00 pm Surgery death rates have dropped nationwide over the past decade, according to a University of Michigan Health System study that reveals cancer surgeries have seen the most dramatic improvement in safety. The U-M study in this week's New England Journal of Medicine shows surgery mortality dropped substantially for eight different high-risk surgeries performed on 3.2 million Medicare patients from 1999 to 2008... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.