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NHS hospital deaths

NHS hospital deaths

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats


NHS hospital deaths

FromMore or Less: Behind the Stats

ratings:
Length:
28 minutes
Released:
Sep 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Tim Harford examines the claim that NHS hospital patients are 45% more likely to die than US ones. Is Sir David Attenborough right that the world's population is increasingly out of control? And are 20% of the world's redheads in Scotland? Plus, the story of the Hawthorne Experiment, one of the most famous studies in industrial history.
Released:
Sep 27, 2013
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (100)

Tim Harford and the More or Less team try to make sense of the statistics which surround us. From BBC Radio 4