Mass General Brigham says it is saving more lives. Some doctors aren’t so sure.
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BOSTON — In a meeting for&#x A0;Mass General Brigham&#x A0;doctors in November 2024, Dr. Giles Boland, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, laid out the vision for becoming the best in the country. Thanks to a&#x A0;corporate merging of its hospitals, he said, the system was well on its way, making progress on delivering the best outcomes possible for patients, including its most important job — keeping people alive. Boland specifically pointed to MGB’s strides on a metric called observed-to-expected mortality, which compares how many people died while admitted to the hospital, versus how many were projected to die, given their levels of illness.Read the rest…