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Its actually much scarier than that: the trend started reversing ~2017, COVID accelerated it, and it hasn't recovered post-COVID.

Naturally, changes to any sufficiently complex system take years to truly manifest their impact in broad statistics; sometimes decades. But, don't discount this single line from the original article:

> Then in 2018, the hospital bought a new program from Epic



How does that qualify as evidence that "outcomes have been getting worse for decades?"


I did not say it was evidence. I actually stated it was a quite poor source; but that it is at least illustrative of the point.


Of the point that outcomes have been getting worse for decades?




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