Encyclopedia: Medical Error
In the United States medical error is estimated to result in 44,000 to 98,000 unnecessary deaths and 1,000,000 excess injuries each year. One older extrapolation suggests '180,000 people die each year partly as a result of iatrogenic injury, the equivalent of three jumbo-jet crashes every 2 days'. It is estimated that in a typical 100 to 300 bed hospital in the United States, excess costs of 1,000,000 to 3,000,000 attributable...
FAQs
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How common are medical errors?
In its landmark 1999 publication, To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System, the U.S. Institute of Medicine (IOM) reported that as many as 98,000 people die in hospitals ...
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Is your main focus on reduction of medical errors?
No, Our main focus is the elimination of variation in the underlying processes of the hospital. Through the elimination of this variation medical errors are reduced.
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How will your system decrease medical errors?
By eliminating many of the causes of errors such as understaffing, lack of readily accessible medical information, and lack of coordination of medical services. Your primary care provider will be ...
