The Nation - News from March 10, 1986

A study found that death rates vary among intensive-care wards, and that some save nearly three times as many lives as others. The federally sponsored study also found that death rates in hospitals affiliated with medical schools were not necessarily lower than those at other hospitals, despite a feeling among medical academicians that teaching hospitals are superior, the New York Times reported. Researchers studied 5,030 cases in 13 hospitals, which were not named, and published the results in the March issue of the Annals of Internal Medicine.