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Quick Facts
- U.S. patients claimed to have the highest rates of lab test errors as compared to six other countries including Canada and the UK.
- Nearly 2 million people pick up infections in hospitals each year largely due to preventable errors.
- Traditionally, malpractice insurance companies and 'risk management' people in hospitals have advised doctors to keep quiet when a mistake occurs.
- As many as 44,000 to 98,000 people die in hospitals each year as the result of medical errors.
- A Florida study revealed that about 9 percent of 350 paramedics admitted to making medical errors. These mistakes range from giving the wrong dose of medication to misplacing breathing tubes into the esophagus, rather than the trachea.
- The number of hospital patients infected with C. difficile that can lead to diarrhea, blood poisoning and even death increased by 200 percent between 2000 and 2005.
- On average, a hospital
patient can be subjected to more than one medication
error each day.
Sources: American Society for Healthcare Risk Management, the Institute of Medicine, St Petersburg Times and Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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