Hospital Errors 3rd Leading Cause of Death

[sapphire18]

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/story/hospital-medical-errors-third-leading-cause-death-dispute-to-err-is-human-report/2013-09-20#ixzz2fe8EZ44D

A new study has come out ranking medical errors in healthcare facilities as the 3rd leading cause of death in the US, behind only heart disease and cancer. What do you all think? I personally find it interesting that the author of this study started a patient safety advocacy group after his 19-year-old son's death was attributed to a medical error. Biased much?

[emtb2rn, BSN, RN, EMT-B]

I started reading this tread to see what those in the medical community would be suggesting needs to be done to prevent many of these deaths since they are occurring in your "place of business." The more I read the more perplexed I became. The same group of people that are all for revoking the 2nd amendment because criminals use guns to kill tens of thousands a year in our country will make excuses for and deny the fact that hundreds of thousands are killed each year by their own peers (medical professionals) due to sloppy work. Are the lives of the sick entrusted to your care less deserving than those gunshot victims?

Not to go off on a tangent but who ever said anything about revoking the 2nd amendment? And please cite the source about the number of people killed by criminals annually.

Lower those ratios, that is the best step towards improving safety.

[teeniebert, LPN]

Well one way to stop some errors would be for facilities to staff safely. Another is to train staff well, especially newbies.

Amen.