One in every seven hospitalized Medicare patients are harmed by treatment mistakes, according to new analysis by the Department of Health & Human Services released Tuesday. The report cites a variety of “adverse events” or causes for treatment errors, including excessive bleeding after surgery, urinary tract infections linked to catheters and incorrect medications. Researchers estimate that these types of adverse events contribute to 15,000 deaths per month or 180,000 deaths each year, according to the report.
Some patient-rights groups are calling these findings alarming.
“The country is in a patient safety crisis,” said David Arkush, the director of Public Citizen’s Congress Watch Division in a statement. “The only workable solution to preventing unnecessary deaths and injuries is to combine much more patient-protective hospital protocols with much better scrutiny by hospitals of physicians and other health care providers, and to appropriately discipline those whose performance results in preventable patient harm.”
The American Hospital Association, which represents 5,000 hospitals in the United States, said it is committed to improvement. Full story in CNN.
Obamacare!!!!!
its only going to get worse with government making medical decission and not your doctor. Welcome to a socialist government thanks Obama
The scoop can get sued for lible for having Kimballs picture up there!
you check in but you don’t check out
Quote “The scoop can get sued for lible for having Kimballs picture up there!” there is no picture of kimball just a picture of a sign and does not even say Kimball
genius it says st barnabas..
I think you guys (my voice and genius) should get a stronger prescription.
to jacky says
you need better glasses, no where does that sign say “kimball”
Ok I’m wrong and admit it if you look at the sign clsel it does say kimball on it sorry about that