Medical Errors Are A Huge Public Health Problem

Medical Errors Are A Huge Public Health Problem.
Hospital care-related problems furnish to the deaths of about 15000 Medicare patients each month, according to a renewed federal regulation study. One in seven patients suffers harm from hospital care, including infections, bed sores and unconscionable bleeding from blood-thinning drugs, said researchers who analyzed material on 780 Medicare patients discharged from hospitals in October 2008, USA Today reported. That shop out to about 134000 of the estimated one million Medicare patients discharged that month, said the Office of Inspector General, Department of Health and Human Services.

Temporary abuse occurred in another one in seven patients whose care-related problems were detected in measure and corrected. "Reducing the incidence of adverse events in hospitals is a important component of efforts to improve patient safety and quality care," the inspector popular wrote.