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UK hospital has 40 per cent death rate after abdominal ops
New research unearths shocking statistic while expert fears figures could be even worse elsewhereMore than four in 10 patients undergoing abdominal surgery at one hospital in the UK die within 30 days, according to figures described as "shocking" yesterday.
The death rate for the emergency surgery is 12 times higher than at the best performing hospital, where just one in 28 patients dies. But patients have no means of knowing which is the safer hospital, as the research does not name the trusts involved.
The findings, from the UK's first national audit of abdominal surgery, come as a separate study suggests death rates following all types of surgery are much higher than previously thought. The overall death rate after surgery in the UK is 3.6 per cent, more than double previous estimates, according to Queen Mary, University of London research in The Lancet.
Around 35,000 emergency abdominal operations are performed each year making it a common surgical procedure. Most patients are over 65 and often seriously ill with internal bleeding or a tear in the bowel wall.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/uk-hospital-has-40-per-cent-death-rate-after-abdominal-ops-8160924.htmlDie 40 Prozent sind das, was in einem der beteiligten Krankenhäuser geschieht. Aber man weiß nicht, welches das ist!
Und es kann noch schlimmer sein, denn es sind nur die Daten aus 35 Krankenhäusern ausgewertet worden, es gibt aber noch WEITERE 200 Krankenhäuser, die sich eben NICHT an der Auswertung beteiligt haben.
Höchste Zeit, daß die deutschen Krankenhäuser unter die Lupe genommen werden.
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