Heart surgery results good in low-volume hospitals

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - The rate of in-hospital deaths after coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery has steadily declined since 1997, and the proportion of CABG procedures performed at low-volume institutions has increased, according to a report in the April Archives of Surgery.

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