Avoidable Medical Deaths

Estimates of preventable hospital deaths are too high, …

https://news.yale.edu/2020/01/28/estimates-preventable-hospital-deaths-are-too-high-new-study-shows

Previous estimates of preventable deaths of hospitalized patients may be two to four times too high, a new Yale School of Medicine study suggests. The meta-analysis of eight studies of inpatient deaths, published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine, …

CDC estimates preventable deaths from 5 leading causes

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2016/p1117-preventable-deaths.html

The number of potentially preventable deaths – premature deaths that could have been avoided – declined from 2010 to 2014 for three of the five leading causes of …

Up to 40 percent of annual deaths from …

https://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2014/p0501-preventable-deaths.html

Potentially Preventable Deaths from the Five Leading Causes of Death Entire Infographic pdf icon Each …

Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading …

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Analyzing medical death rate data over an eight-year period, Johns Hopkins patient safety experts have calculated that more than 250,000 deaths per year are due to …

Medical errors and accidents: an ongoing threat to health …

https://www.statnews.com/2021/08/04/medical-errors-accidents-ongoing-preventable-health-threat/

Rate of Preventable Mortality in Hospitalized Patients: a …

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31965525/

Rate of Preventable Mortality in Hospitalized Patients: a Systematic Review and Meta-analysis Rate of Preventable Mortality in Hospitalized Patients: a Systematic Review …

Medical Error Is Not the Third Leading Cause of Death

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The BMJ ’s higher estimate of preventable deaths due to medical error—440,000 patients a year—translates to 62% of all hospital deaths, as was pointed …

Avoidable mortality (preventable and …

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Diabetes and other diseases of the endocrine system (9%) and respiratory diseases such as pneumonia and asthma (9%) are other major causes of premature deaths that are …

The High Cost of Preventable Deaths | Harvard Medical School

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Deaths from treatable conditions may cost the world trillions of dollars each year, according to a newly published analysis led by Harvard Medical School researchers believed to be the first to quantify the economic impact of insufficient access to high-quality medical care. The results, published in the June issue of Health Affairs, showed that 8 …

Medical Error Reduction and Prevention

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Not all adverse outcomes are the result of an error; hence, only preventable adverse eventsare attributed to medical error. Adverse events can include unintended …