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Heart surgery data may go public

State looking at patient death rates for doctors

By Liz Kowalczyk
Globe Staff / July 4, 2006

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State public health officials will decide this summer whether to publicize the patient death rates for individual physicians who perform two common heart procedures, giving Massachusetts patients unprecedented information about their doctors' performance. (Full article: 1192 words)

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