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A RECENT STUDY: PREVENTABLE MEDICAL ERRORS

( In this study, over 500 people were permanently harmed, or died due to preventable medical errors)

PREVENTABLE MEDICAL ERRORS, wrongful death, patient harm

Your chances of getting it right when you go to the hospital are OK if your are the one of the first three to find a bed, if you are the fourth, chances of a doctor killing you are fairly certain.

BTW, if you make it to a bed, the high risk starts over.

Here's what JAMA (Journal of American Medical Association) posted as a headline to their latest paper, that your have to pay for to read.

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Question: How often do diagnostic errors happen in adult patients who are transferred to the intensive care unit (ICU) or die in the hospital, what causes the errors, and what are the associated harms?

Findings In this cohort study of 2428 patient records, a missed or delayed diagnosis took place in 23%, with 17% of these errors causing temporary or permanent harm to patients. The underlying diagnostic process problems with the greatest effect sizes associated with diagnostic errors, and which might be an initial focus for safety improvement efforts, were faults in testing and clinical assessment.

Meaning Among hospitalized adults transferred to the ICU or who died in the hospital, diagnostic errors were common, harmful, and had underlying causes, which can be used to design future interventions.

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If you or your loved one happen to be the forth patient admitted you will soon Google using terms like these:

Medical Malpractice: Examples, Criteria, Steps to File

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How Medical Malpractice Lawsuits and Settlements Work

Wrongful Death Law | Personal Injury Law

This is one of the reasons why I'm working so hard to prevent other families from suffering the agonizing grief that my family will live with forever, preventable medical malpractice was the root cause for Zander's death at only 20 years old, just last Christmas (2023).