Adverse Events in Hospitals- United States Department of Health Report slams current measures in US hospitals
Posted: December 21, 2010 at 9:34 am
OFFICE OF , INSPECTOR GENERAL of US Department of Health and Human Services, released a report on the national incidence of adverse events for hospitalized Medicare beneficiaries, the preventability of such events, and associated costs to Medicare.
The report released last month month found that one in seven of the patients experienced an adverse event such as excessive bleeding, a hospital-acquired infection or aspiration pneumonia. Those events, both preventable and not preventable, led to about 180,000 deaths a year.
The complete report available at
http://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-06-09-00090.pdf
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