Ryan McNeill is a data journalist at Thomas Reuters. Previously, he was a computer-assisted reporting editor at The Dallas Morning News. He was assigned to the investigative unit and oversees the paper's data analysis for news stories.
Parkland Memorial Hospita has for years been one of the state’s worst-performing hospitals on a broad federal measure of patient safety, a Dallas Morning News analysis shows. Hospital representatives accepted the accuracy of the calculations, but they questioned how well the data reflected actual performance and current hospital conditions.
To identify rates of potentially preventable medical harm, The Dallas Morning News analyzed nearly 9 million patient-level records from hospitals across Texas.
So how can a hospital be judged so deficient by federal inspectors, yet rank among the best in U.S. News & World Report?
It's all in the methodology.
