Mass General Brigham says it is saving more lives. Some doctors aren’t so sure.

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BOSTON — In a meeting for Mass General Brigham doctors in November 2024, Dr. Giles Boland, president of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, laid out the vision for becoming the best in the country. Thanks to a corporate merging of its hospitals, he said, the system was well on its way, making progress on delivering the best outcomes possible for patients, including its most important job — keeping people alive.

Boland specifically pointed to MGB’s strides on a metric called observed-to-expected mortality, which compares how many people died while admitted to the hospital, versus how many were projected to die, given their levels of illness.

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