New Study: 150,000 Deaths This Year From Medical Mistakes and Inadequate Care In Hospitals
Posted by Wayne Parsons
October 28, 2008 6:28 AM
October 28, 2008 6:28 AM
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A non-profit organization, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), that monitors health care, has found that 57,000 Americans die each year because they do not receive adequate care in hospitals. Their report, The State of Health Care Quality concludes that:
In 1999, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), part of the National Academy of Sciences, found that medical errors cause as many as 98,000 deaths each year.
The Center For Justice & Democracy (CJ&D) has reported that
Rather than trying block lawsuits by patients for injuries due to negligent medical care, doctors and hospitals should clean their own profession of this blatant cause of injury.