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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 1365307" data-attributes="member: 1"><p>I'm sorry for your loss @[USER=52144]jacobram[/USER]. Unfortunately medical mistakes kill a lot of people.</p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals" target="_blank"><strong>How Many Die From Medical Mistakes In U.S. Hospitals? - NPR</strong></a></p><p></p><p>In 2010, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services said that bad hospital care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given year.</p><p></p><p>Now comes a <a href="http://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx" target="_blank">study in</a> the <em>Journal of Patient Safety</em> that says the numbers may be much higher — <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/781687-john-james-a-new-evidence-based-estimate-of.html#document/p1/a117333" target="_blank">210,000 and 440,000 patients</a> between each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death.</p><p></p><p>That would make medical errors the <a href="http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm" target="_blank">third leading cause of death</a>, behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 1365307, member: 1"] I'm sorry for your loss @[USER=52144]jacobram[/USER]. Unfortunately medical mistakes kill a lot of people. [URL='http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/09/20/224507654/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals'][B]How Many Die From Medical Mistakes In U.S. Hospitals? - NPR[/B][/URL] In 2010, the Office of Inspector General for the Department of Health and Human Services said that bad hospital care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given year. Now comes a [URL='http://journals.lww.com/journalpatientsafety/Fulltext/2013/09000/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx']study in[/URL] the [I]Journal of Patient Safety[/I] that says the numbers may be much higher — [URL='https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/781687-john-james-a-new-evidence-based-estimate-of.html#document/p1/a117333']210,000 and 440,000 patients[/URL] between each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death. That would make medical errors the [URL='http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm']third leading cause of death[/URL], behind heart disease, which is the first, and cancer, which is second. [/QUOTE]
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