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Medical errors are killing at least 200,000 people per year in America

9/9/2016 - We've all seen an occasional headline of a medical mistake passing by. These errors include surgery gone wrong, misdiagnosis, administering the wrong dosage of medication or neglecting the care of a patient. However, these seemingly rare cases of medical errors happen more often that you may think. According...

12 potentially life-threatening errors you're making in food preparedness and survival strategies

2/24/2014 - Although armed with good intentions, most preppers and survivalists are making critical errors -- perhaps fatal errors -- in their food preparedness strategies. This article is designed to help you identify and correct those errors as quickly as possible so that you're in good shape before the food...

Surgical errors too profitable to stop!

4/21/2013 - When I wrote Death by Modern Medicine I was appalled at the level of abuse in the hospital industry leading to 783,936 deaths annually due to medical iatrogenesis. An April 17, 2013 Harvard School of Public Health study published in JAMA adds an even more macabre level of incredulity. Hospitals actually...

Doctors make 'too many errors' when prescribing drugs, GMC review says

5/15/2012 - A new review compiled by the U.K.'s General Medical Council (GMC) expresses concern over the alarming number of medication errors caused by general practitioners (GPs) in the U.K. According to the data, as many as 20 percent of patients taking prescription drugs have been victims of at least one medication...

Deadly medical errors still common in U.S. hospitals

2/21/2011 - In spite of a decade of efforts to improve patient safety, dangerous medical errors are still common in U.S. hospitals, according to a study conducted by researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston and published in the "New England Journal of Medicine." "Hospitals are places where medical...

Medical Errors Still Common in U.S. Hospitals

10/21/2009 - More than 2 percent of all hospital patients are victims of a medical error, according to a study conducted by the health care ratings organization HealthGrades. Researchers reviewed a Medicare database to evaluate almost 5,000 hospitals across the United States for their performance on 12 different...

Infants Regularly Given Adult Doses of Heart Disease Drugs

7/20/2009 - Babies and young children are being given adult doses of common heart disease drugs, and often the wrong medication, according to research conducted by the Johns Hopkins Children's Center in Baltimore. A study headed by Marlene Miller, M.D., M.Sc., vice chair for quality and patient safety at the...

Odds of Intensive Care Medication Errors Are Over One Hundred Percent

4/16/2008 - A report produced by PubMed Central states that 1.7 errors per day are experienced by patients in intensive care units (ICU). At least one life-threatening error occurs at some point during virtually every ICU stay. 78% of the serious medical errors are in medications. 1.7 errors per day times 78%...

Medication errors affect children's leukemia treatment (press release)

10/10/2006 - Almost one in five children treated for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) does not receive the appropriate chemotherapy regimen due to medication errors, according to a new study. Published in the September 15, 2006 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, the study...

Medication Errors Injure 1.5 Million People and Cost Billions of Dollars Annually (press release)

9/25/2006 - Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 million people every year, says a new report from the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies. The extra medical costs of treating drug-related injuries occurring in hospitals alone conservatively amount to $3.5...

Medication errors harm 1.5 million Americans each year, reveals IOM report

7/21/2006 - A new report by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) reveals that at least 1.5 million Americans are made sick, injured, or killed every year by errors in prescribing or administering medication. The IOM report, which was requested by Congress in 2003, concluded that drug mistakes in hospitals are so...

Hospital warning: medical errors kill 195,000 Americans each year, says new study

7/28/2004 - A new study has revealed startling statistics about the number of people killed each year in U.S. hospitals. That number is now estimated to be 195,000 people, or almost twice as many as were estimated in a 1998 report on the same subject. To put this in perspective, this is equivalent to almost fifty...

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