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Highlights the perverse financial incentives in the US healthcare system where hospitals can profit from preventable postsurgical complications.
In this issue of JAMA, Eappen et al1 reach the troublesome but not surprising conclusion that hospitals in the United States can profit handsomely from postsurgical complications, even if the hospitals could avoid them. The authors note that �Effective methods for reducing surgical complications have been identified. However, hospitals have been slow to implement them.�
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