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Despite the shocking and widely publicized statistics on preventable deaths due to medical errors in America's hospitals, the 2006 National Healthcare Quality Report [197] assembled by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) had the following sobering assessment:
The report was based upon analysis of multiple studies by a variety of organizations and concluded that between 44,000 to 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. [1]
Variations in healthcare provider training & experience [45] [52] and failure to acknowledge the prevalence and seriousness of medical errors also increase the risk. [53] [54] The so-called July effect occurs when new residents arrive at teaching hospitals, causing an increase in medication errors according to a study of data from 1979 to 2006.
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 ...
Elizabeth and her colleagues are working to spread the word about their invention to hospitals and other health care facilities looking to prevent medication errors. Safen medical tags are ...
Release. April 22, 2010. (2010-04-22) Chasing Zero: Winning the War on Healthcare Harm is a made for television documentary about preventable medical errors in healthcare narrated by and featuring actor and patient safety advocate Dennis Quaid. The world premier was in Nice, France on April 22, 2010, [1] It aired on the Discovery Channel in the ...
Medical mistakes — from surgical disasters to accidental drug overdoses — are the No. 3 cause of death in the U.S.
Healthcare systems are complex in that they are diverse in both structure (e.g. nursing units, pharmacies, emergency departments, operating rooms) and professional mix (e.g. nurses, physicians, pharmacists, administrators, therapists) and made up of multiple interconnected elements with adaptive tendencies in that they have the capacity to change and learn from experience.