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Medical errors kill scores of Americans. Women and minorities are more likely to receive a misdiagnosis, a recent study finds. ... researchers found that nearly 1 in 4 hospital patients who died ...
Despite the shocking and widely publicized statistics on preventable deaths due to medical errors in America's hospitals, the 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report [198] assembled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) had the following sobering assessment:
The good news: Florida is in the Top 10 for states with hospitals that do a good job at preventing medical errors, accidents and infections, according to a new report released by the LeapFrog ...
The report was based upon analysis of multiple studies by a variety of organizations and concluded that between 44,000 and 98,000 people die each year as a result of preventable medical errors. For comparison, fewer than 50,000 people died of Alzheimer's disease and 17,000 died of illicit drug use in the same year.
Another study notes that about 1.14 million patient-safety incidents occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations in the Medicare population over the years 2000–2002. Hospital costs associated with such medical errors were estimated at $324 million in October 2008 alone. [6] Approximately 17,000 malpractice cases are filed in the U.S. each ...
State regulators faulted two hospitals in Southern California for medication errors that put patients at risk, including one who suffered a brain bleed after receiving repeated doses of blood thinner.
According to Institute of Medicine (IOM) and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), as many as 98,000 patient deaths occur each year in U.S. healthcare facilities as a result of preventable medical errors. Also, IOM and IHI report preventable medical errors impact at least five million Americans annually, costing more than $17–21 billion ...
A Journal of General Internal Medicine study, published in 2010, investigated medical errors from 1979 to 2006 in United States hospitals and found that medication errors increased 10% during the month of July at teaching hospitals, but not in neighboring hospitals. [3] [4] Surgical errors did not increase, leading to the hypothesis that ...