Nando Times Media reported yesterday on the struggles hospitals are facing in attempts to decrease the number of deaths from medical error.
The report highlights “health care’s dirty little secret: Medical mistakes kill somewhere between 44,000 and 98,000 hospitalized Americans a year.”
As we have reported here in the past, when we compare the numbers of deaths yearly due to medical error to an event such as the recent Alaska Airlines crash, we find the following:
A jetliner tragedy such as that in the Alaska Airline crash would occur at least 1.3 times daily with as many as 3 jetliner crashes per day. That is 3 jetliner crashes daily, each carrying 88 passengers, for a total of 264 accidental deaths occurring seven days a week, 365 days a year.
Hospitals all across the country are searching for ways (and looking for funding) to ensure the safety of patients that enter their system.
According to the report, “health workers often refuse to disclose errors for fear they’ll be sued or fired.” One must wonder how many medical mistakes are going un-reported.
The Institute of Medicine would like to see medical mistakes cut in half within five years. Here is a suggestion: keep people out of hospitals.
There are many chiropractors that feel we have an obligation and responsibility to tell the public the truth. The choice is yours doctor.
Here is your link: Hospitals devising new ideas to cut medical errors
(This is a great article and should be read in its entirety.)
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