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Doctors Kill 1 million Patients Annually through Surgical Errors
Medication Errors Harming Millions, Report Says
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By Marc Kaufman
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 21, 2006
At least 1.5 million Americans are sickened, injured or killed each year by errors in prescribing, dispensing and taking medications, the influential Institute of Medicine concluded in a major report released yesterday.
Mistakes in giving drugs are so prevalent in hospitals that, on average, a patient will be subjected to a medication error each day he or she occupies a hospital bed, the report by a panel of experts said.
Following up on its influential 2000 report on medical errors of all kinds, the institute, a branch of the National Academies, undertook the most extensive study ever of medication errors in response to a request made by Congress in 2003 when it passed the Medicare Modernization Act.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/20/AR2006072000754.html
How many patients die each year in the U.S. due to preventable errors?
Death numbers vary widely, depending on the study and methodology:
Between 44,000 and 98,000 Americans die each year in U.S. hospitals due to preventable medical errors (Institute Of Medicine, 1999).
195,000 Americans die a year due to preventable errors (HealthGrades, 2004)
32,500 patients die as a result of preventable medical errors in U.S. hospitals. The HHS number was lower than the IOM study because it only examined deaths resulting from 18 specific types of medical injuries. (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 2003)
An estimated 15,000 Medicare patients die each month in part because of care they receive in the hospital, says a government study released today - 44% of these were deemed preventable errors (Department of Health and Human Services report, 2008, via USA Today).
In addition (conflicting numbers for infections, too):
99,000 patients die as a result of hospital-acquired infections (HAI) each year (AHRQ, 2009). The most common HAI agent is methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) (AHRQ, 2008).
90,000 die as a result of nosocomial (HAI) infections (CDC)
NOTE: Total deaths from errors and infections would be quoted as 99,000 plus one of the top three estimates.Hospital errors rank between the fifth and eighth leading cause of death, killing more Americans than breast cancer, traffic accidents or AIDS (IOM).Just one type of error—preventable adverse drug events—caused one out of five injuries or deaths per year to patients in the hospitals that were studied (AHRQ, 2000).
About 7,000 people per year are estimated to die from medication errors alone—about 16 percent more deaths than the number attributable to work-related injuries (Kaiser Family Foundation).
Investigators in a major study discovered that failures at the system level were the real culprits in over three-fourths of adverse drug events (AHRQ, 2000).
In nursing homes, infections contribute to 380,000 deaths per year, with costs reaching $2 billion. (CMS data).
How many patients are injured?
Errors like these are responsible for preventable injury in as many as 1 out of every 25 hospital patients (4% of hospitalizations) (AHRQ, 2000).
About 18 percent of patients were harmed by medical care, some more than once… 2.4 percent — caused or contributed to a patient’s death, the study found. (New York Times, 2010). – this corresponds to 155,000 deaths per year
About one in seven Medicare hospital patients — or about 134,000 of the estimated 1 million discharged in October 2008 — were harmed from medical care. Another one in seven experienced temporary harm because the problem was caught in time and reversed. (Department of Health and Human Services report, 2008, via USA Today).
Approximately 1.14 million total patient safety incidents occurred among the 37 million hospitalizations in the Medicare population from 2000 through 2002 – 3.1% of hospitalizations (HealthGrades, 2004).
They concluded that 1% of patients were negligently injured (Harvard study, 1990).
At least 1.5 million Americans are sickened, injured or killed each year by errors in prescribing, dispensing and taking medications, the influential Institute of Medicine concluded in a major report (Washington Post, 2006).
Approximately 1.3 million people are injured annually in the United States following so-called “medication errors” (FDA)
One in five Americans (22%) report that they or a family member have experienced a medical error of some kind (Commonwealth Fund, 2002).
Adverse drug events occur in 6.5 of 100 non-obstetrical admissions. 28% of these were deemed preventable. (Referenced in JAMA, 2009)
Adverse events (of any kind) occur in 4% to 14% of all admissions. 50% to 70% are due to preventable error. (JAMA, 2009)
Wrong-site surgeries occur in 1 per 112,994 nonspine operations. (JAMA, 2009)
A 2005 survey of 1527 randomly-selected patients resulted in 34% reporting having experienced a medical error in the last two years. (JAMA, 2009)
From The Connecticut Center for Patient Safety (“A Casualty Count”)
3% or more of hospital patients are hurt by medical error
1 in 300 patients die from such mistakes
24% of people say they or a family member have been harmed by medical error
90,000 people die of hospital-‐acquired infections annually. More than half of these may be preventable. Healthgrades puts the number of preventable deaths at 200,000 annually.
55% of recommended care actually gets administered.
$2,000 Annual cost to employers per insured worker due to poor-‐quality care
61% of doctors wash their hands before examining a patient if they know someone is watching. Only 44% wash their hands if they think no one is watching.
What does this cost?
The IOM report estimates that medical errors cost the Nation approximately $37.6 billion each year; about $17 billion of those costs are associated with preventable errors. About half of the expenditures for preventable medical errors are for direct health care costs (IOM, 1999).
Medication errors cost the U.S. $4 billion a year (Institute of Medicine, 2007)
Annual cost of medical errors that harm patients to be $17.1 billion in 2008 dollars. (Milliman Inc study, 2011)
How do we know these are “preventable?”
Forty-four percent of the adverse events could have been prevented with appropriate attention (Department of Health and Human Services report, 2008)
One of the landmark studies on medical errors indicated 70 percent of adverse events found in a review of 1,133 medical records were preventable; 6 percent were potentially preventable; and 24 percent were not preventable.
A study released last year, based on a chart review of 15,000 medical records in Colorado and Utah, found that 54 percent of surgical errors were preventable: http://www.ahrq.gov/qual/errback.htm
63.1 percent of the injuries were judged to be preventable (New York Times, 2010).
Is this just a problem in the United States?
The risk of dying in hospital as a result of medical error in the developed world is one in 300, Britain’s Chief Medical Officer warned (Guardian, 2006).
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