Put Medical Error Deaths into Context
MEDICAL-LIABILITY UPDATE: “Death by Medical Error: Adding Context…people dying in US hospitals…of preventable medical errors…risen to more than 250,000…many of those…very sick…can’t be compared with the general public…(T)his means that medical errors account for 10% of ALL deaths, or…more than a third of ALL hospitalized patients. That’s hard to fathom…very hard to prove what events cause death and which are correlated with it.”–NYTimes Upshot 8/15/16