Any time you go into the hospital for any procedure there is a risk, and hospitals on the cutting edge of medicine, like Danbury Hospital in Connecticut, will tell patients about it.
In a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, The Informed Patient Columnist Laura Landro explores computer risk generators that tell patients the odds of complications as well as risks, such as infections.
The programs permit patients to enter their personal risk factors and health status and combine them with the type of surgery being performed to learn the risks for complications or death.
These programs not only save hospitals, insurers, patients and those who pay insurance money, they provide realistic information. The cost to hospitals is minimal compared to the millions they can save each facility.
Before going under the knife, demand a risk assessment from your doctor or hospital and, if they don’t have one, maybe you should look for a hospital that does.
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