{"id":1622,"date":"2013-09-23T18:38:41","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ctcps.org\/blog\/?p=1622"},"modified":"2013-09-23T18:39:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T18:39:13","slug":"how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-u-s-hospitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1622","title":{"rendered":"How Many Die From Medical Mistakes in U.S. Hospitals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/site\/author\/marshall_allen\/\">Marshall Allen<\/a><br \/>\nProPublica, Sep. 19, 2013, 10:03 a.m.\u00a0<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\ngoogletag.display('google-Rt_Sdbr_Mobile-Only300x250-2');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/pubads.g.doubleclick.net\/gampad\/ads?gdfp_req=1&amp;correlator=856068185850941&amp;output=json_html&amp;callback=googletag.impl.pubads.setAdContentsBySlotForSync&amp;impl=s&amp;iu=%2F2219821%2FRt_Sdbr_Mobile-Only300x250-2&amp;sz=300x250&amp;cust_params=author%3DMarshall_Allen%26scope%3DMedium%26project%3DPatient_Safety%26type%3Darticle&amp;cookie=ID%3D12b0109cf45c1a6e%3AT%3D1377887783%3AS%3DALNI_MZAi3k18MjbiP_G_S9Ib7gV5jlWtg&amp;lmt=1379959519&amp;dt=1379959519982&amp;cc=100&amp;biw=1265&amp;bih=698&amp;oid=3&amp;adx=0&amp;ady=0&amp;adk=3138451468&amp;gut=v2&amp;oe=utf-8&amp;ifi=4&amp;u_tz=-240&amp;u_his=1&amp;u_java=true&amp;u_h=900&amp;u_w=1600&amp;u_ah=860&amp;u_aw=1600&amp;u_cd=24&amp;flash=11.7.700.202&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.propublica.org%2Farticle%2Fhow-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals&amp;vrg=27&amp;vrp=27&amp;ga_vid=1329825199.1379959519&amp;ga_sid=1379959519&amp;ga_hid=2060360500\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n\n\n\/\/ ]]><\/script>It seems that every time researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital patient\u2019s death, the numbers come out worse. \u00a0In 1999, the Institute of Medicine published the famous \u201cTo Err Is Human\u201d report, which dropped a bombshell on the medical community by reporting that up to 98,000 people a year die because of mistakes in hospitals. The number was initially disputed, but is now widely accepted by doctors and hospital officials \u2014 and quoted ubiquitously in the media.\u00a0\u00a0In 2010, the Office of Inspector General for Health and Human Services said that bad hospital care contributed to the deaths of 180,000 patients in Medicare alone in a given year. \u00a0\u00a0Now comes a <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.lww.com\/journalpatientsafety\/Fulltext\/2013\/09000\/A_New,_Evidence_based_Estimate_of_Patient_Harms.2.aspx\">study in the current issue<\/a> [1] of the Journal of Patient Safety that says the numbers may be much higher \u2014 between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.documentcloud.org\/documents\/781687-john-james-a-new-evidence-based-estimate-of.html#document\/p1\/a117333\">210,000 and 440,000 patients<\/a> [2] each year who go to the hospital for care suffer some type of preventable harm that contributes to their death, the study says. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.propublica.org\/article\/how-many-die-from-medical-mistakes-in-us-hospitals\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Marshall Allen ProPublica, Sep. 19, 2013, 10:03 a.m.\u00a0It seems that every time researchers estimate how often a medical mistake contributes to a hospital patient\u2019s death, the numbers come out <\/p>\n<p class=\"readMore\"><a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/?p=1622\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,59],"tags":[467,317,645,81,318],"class_list":["post-1622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-showcase","category-patient-safety-activism","tag-adverse-medical-events","tag-institute-of-medicine","tag-journal-of-patient-safety","tag-medical-error","tag-to-err-is-human"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1622"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1624,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1622\/revisions\/1624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ctcps.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}