Unexplained Deaths in a Children's Hospital: An Epidemiologic Assessment

During a nine-month period, July 1980 through March 1981, the mortality rate for patients on the cardiology ward of a children's hospital was 43.1 deaths per 10,000 patient-days, as compared with 11.0 deaths per 10,000 patient-days during the preceding 54 months. Twenty-five (76 per cent) of 33...

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