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As academic hospitals lower mortality rates, should insurers reconsider excluding them?

  • Written by Marschall Runge, Dean, School of Medicine, University of Michigan
imageHealth care personnel in all hospitals work hard to provide first-rate care, but academic hospitals carry an added responsibility. Some have questioned whether that dilutes clinical care. gpointstudios/Shutterstock.com

A comprehensive new study has found that major teaching hospitals in the United States outperformed non-teaching hospitals in the...

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