A new study has found that the surgical death rate in hospitals is not just determined by the rate of complications but also by how those complications are handled.

The study involved more than 84,000 people who underwent surgery in U. S. hospitals and discovered a twofold difference in surgical deaths between hospitals with the lowest rate and those with the highest.

In recent years the emphasis has been on reducing the rate of surgical complications as per Dr. Justin B. Dimick who is assistant professor of surgery at the University of Michigan and a co- author of the study.

Dimicl said, "Our study doesn't necessarily contradict the need for checklists, there is no doubt that reducing complications is an important goal. But our data show that the reason why some hospitals aren't reducing mortality may be due to differences in the complication treatment."

There can be various components of complications like bleeding, infections and leakages and they can be linked to medical problems like heart attack, blood clots in the leg, kidney stroke or stroke.

It was seen in hospitals with low mortality rate that 12.5 percent of people with such complications died as compared to 21.4 percent in hospitals with high mortality rate.

Studies have revealed that intensive care unit specialists and a high nurse-to-patient ratio improve survival but sometimes this basic rule is just forgotten.