New research suggests that one in three people will experience some sort of mistake while staying in a U.S. hospital.
According to msnbc.com, the discovery is about 10 times higher than older estimates. These medical errors could range anywhere from bedsores to having objects left in the body after surgery.
David Classen and colleagues at the University of Utah compared a new yardstick method with two common older ways of detecting hospital errors. The research team tracked errors of the same set of medical records from three different hospitals to find the best yardstick
"Our findings indicate that two methods commonly used by most care delivery organizations and supported by policy makers to measure the safety of care ... fail to detect more than 90 percent of the adverse events that occur among hospitalized patients," the team wrote.
This suggests that many errors go undetected.
A separate study also estimated the annual cost of the medical errors that harm patients is close to $17.1 billion. Both studies were supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
~from Reuters
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