Posted on 01/15/2023 8:32:12 PM PST by ConservativeMind
Nearly one quarter of hospitalized people experience a harmful event during their stay, a new study finds.
However, most of the bad outcomes are not preventable because they're related to known side effects from medications or risks of surgery.
"These numbers are disappointing, but not shocking," study author Dr. David Bates. "They do show we still have lots of work to do."
His team used data from the medical records of more than 2,800 patients who were hospitalized in 11 Boston-area hospitals during 2018. The data showed that while at the hospital, 663 of these patients had at least one event that negatively affected their health, the study found.
Researchers determined that 222 of those events, or 7% of total admissions, were caused by an error. In all, 29 people (1%) of all those admitted were seriously harmed by the adverse events, including one preventable death. Nearly 40% of the adverse events were due to medications, while another 30% were due to surgery and procedures.
Another 15% were "patient-care events," including falls and bedsores. About 12% were from infections, a significant improvement from past few decades, the researchers said.
Still, harm during hospitalization continues to be a serious issue, Bates noted.
"Although we have eliminated some causes of harm, there are new kinds of harm that have been created, associated with potent new medications and new procedures," said Dr. Albert Wu.
Other experts agreed.
"There are many more medications available today compared to 1991, and some of the medicines have a smaller therapeutic margin, which is the gap between the therapeutic effect and dangerous dose," Dr. Donald Berwick.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Regardless, do go if you need to go, but use quality indicators, such as those from your health insurance provider or independent organizations like Leapfrog.
https://www.leapfroggroup.org/hospital-choice/choosing-right-hospital
Also, consider Healthgrades, Vitals, and even Yelp for further insight.
Of course, if it's an emergency, you take what you can get.
I have two major hospitals in the urban region I live. One has a serious problem with infection rates. The other operates with a higher cost level, but serious sanitation practices, and clean-up crews.
Hospital with infection rates? They decided the cure was to build an entire new building, and tear down the old one. This was mostly to convince people that things were going to be fixed. Their cost rate will edge up against the place with the better clean-up crews.
Atul Gwande has some great books about QC in hospital settings.
Go to a hospital only when you are ready to die. Chances are good that they will "give you a shove".
ConservativeMind :" Regardless, do go if you need to go, but use quality indicators, such as those from your health insurance provider or independent organizations like Leapfrog."
“Nearly one quarter of hospitalized people experience a harmful event during their stay, a new study finds.
However, most of the bad outcomes are not preventable because they're related to known side effects from medications or risks of surgery...
"These numbers are disappointing, but not shocking," study author Dr. David Bates. "They do show we still have lots of work to do."
His team used data from the medical records of more than 2,800 patients who were hospitalized in 11 Boston-area hospitals during 2018.
The data showed that while at the hospital, 663 of these patients had at least one event that negatively affected their health, the study found.
Researchers determined that 222 of those events, or 7% of total admissions, were caused by an error.
In all, 29 people (1%) of all those admitted were seriously harmed by the adverse events, including one preventable death.
Nearly 40% of the adverse events were due to medications,
while another 30% were due to surgery and procedures.”
Another 15% were "patient-care events," including falls and bedsores.
About 12% were from infections, a significant improvement from past few decades, the researchers said. ..”
I had a coworker who went in for a shoulder injury, tore something. Got sepsis and died.
In my family it's nearer to a rule than an exception.
This article is just still bull shit and intentionally misleading, therefore a blatant lie. Democrats lie all of the time and most of the time they know they are lying. some, I will admit are not aware that they are perpetuating a lie, but they fall under the category of extremely stupid.
The majority of problems are fallouts from treatment, which are expected to have issues.
That’s my point! it does not properly describe the care and treatment in a hospital.
We are not an assembly line process manufacturing a generic product.
From NYS...
Interesting timing.
My mother, who passed away a few months ago, would get a bit ticked at the hospital when every doctor would ask her the same questions time and time again. She would sometimes reply, “You never read my records, why do you keep asking these questions?”.
A social worker would come in daily and ask such questions (slowly and loudly, as if mother was deaf and dumb), as, “Mrs Smith, do you have area rugs in your house? Are your electrical cords in your way? They can be a danger.” Or, “Do you feel safe at home?” Mother, after a while would get testy and reply, “I have a better chance of dying in the hospital due to your mistakes than I do falling and dying in my home”.
I tried to tell them that mother was the smartest person in the room, but they refused to believe me. At 89 years of age, she could rattle off her medications, the dosage, the reason she was taking them, and whether she took them morning or night. Even up to a couple of days before she passed away, I would ask her if I had the right medications laid out for the evening. She always knew which ones she took.
She was right that hospitals and doctors will kill you. Stay away from them as long as you can. One medication will cause side effects that they will prescribe another medication to combat. After a while, they will have you in a stupor waiting for your next round of pills until they prescribe you the final prescription.
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