Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, MD is on the Best Hospitals Honor Roll. It is nationally ranked in 14 adult and 11 pediatric specialties and rated high performing in 18 adult procedures and conditions. It is a general medical and surgical facility.
“Over seven years, 60%–70% of these devices never discharge to save a life,” says T. Jake Samuel, Ph.D., first author of the study and fellow in cardiology at Johns Hopkins Medicine. “We’re spending billions of dollars a year on ICDs that are implanted and have procedural and ...