Patient Transfer

  • Mortality of patients transferred to a tertiary care hospital
    John D. Clough, MD, Robert Kay, MD, William R. Gombeski, MPH, MBA, Daniel E. Nickelson, MA and Floyd D. Loop, MD
    Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine November 1993, 60 (6) 449-454;

    A look at the effect of transfers on patient outcome and on hospital mortality statistics, and how superficial review of these statistics could lead to mistaken conclusions about the quality of hospitals to which patients are transferred.