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Study Suggests Medical Errors Now Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.
https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/media/releases/study_suggests_medical_errors_now_third_leading_ ^ | 5-3-16 | Michael Daniels

Posted on 12/31/2022 5:45:44 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY

nalyzing 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 error in the U.S. Their figure, published May 3 in The BMJ, surpasses the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) third leading cause of death — respiratory disease, which kills close to 150,000 people per year.

The Johns Hopkins team says the CDC’s way of collecting national health statistics fails to classify medical errors separately on the death certificate. The researchers are advocating for updated criteria for classifying deaths on death certificates.

“Incidence rates for deaths directly attributable to medical care gone awry haven’t been recognized in any standardized method for collecting national statistics,” says Martin Makary, M.D., M.P.H., professor of surgery at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and an authority on health reform. “The medical coding system was designed to maximize billing for physician services, not to collect national health statistics, as it is currently being used.”

In 1949, Makary says, the U.S. adopted an international form that used International Classification of Diseases (ICD) billing codes to tally causes of death.

“At that time, it was under-recognized that diagnostic errors, medical mistakes and the absence of safety nets could result in someone’s death, and because of that, medical errors were unintentionally excluded from national health statistics,” says Makary.

The researchers say that since that time, national mortality statistics have been tabulated using billing codes, which don’t have a built-in way to recognize incidence rates of mortality due to medical care gone wrong.

In their study, the researchers examined four separate studies that analyzed medical death rate data from 2000 to 2008, including one by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Inspector General and the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Then, using hospital admission rates from 2013, they extrapolated that based on a total of 35,416,020 hospitalizations, 251,454 deaths stemmed from a medical error, which the researchers say now translates to 9.5 percent of all deaths each year in the U.S.

According to the CDC, in 2013, 611,105 people died of heart disease, 584,881 died of cancer and 149,205 died of chronic respiratory disease — the top three causes of death in the U.S. The newly calculated figure for medical errors puts this cause of death behind cancer but ahead of respiratory disease.

“Top-ranked causes of death as reported by the CDC inform our country’s research funding and public health priorities,” says Makary. “Right now, cancer and heart disease get a ton of attention, but since medical errors don’t appear on the list, the problem doesn’t get the funding and attention it deserves.”

The researchers caution that most of medical errors aren’t due to inherently bad doctors, and that reporting these errors shouldn’t be addressed by punishment or legal action. Rather, they say, most errors represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability.

“Unwarranted variation is endemic in health care. Developing consensus protocols that streamline the delivery of medicine and reduce variability can improve quality and lower costs in health care. More research on preventing medical errors from occurring is needed to address the problem,” says Makary.

Michael Daniel of Johns Hopkins is a co-author on the study.


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1 posted on 12/31/2022 5:45:44 AM PST by ARGLOCKGUY
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And that’s not counting those experimental “vaccines” that doctors like to push.


2 posted on 12/31/2022 5:46:44 AM PST by ClearCase_guy (No one is as asleep as the "woke". They define the term "useful idiot".)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Does telling people little tested experimental treatments are safe and effective but are actually harmful fall under the “medical error” umbrella I wonder?


3 posted on 12/31/2022 5:48:44 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ClearCase_guy

GTMA


4 posted on 12/31/2022 5:49:01 AM PST by V_TWIN (America...so great even the people that hate it refuse to leave!)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Lawyer fodder


5 posted on 12/31/2022 5:50:34 AM PST by bert ( (KWE. NP. N.C. +12) Juneteenth is inequality daythis piece is )
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

While all this is TRUE, “The researchers caution that most of medical errors aren’t due to inherently bad doctors, and that reporting these errors shouldn’t be addressed by punishment or legal action. Rather, they say, most errors represent systemic problems, including poorly coordinated care, fragmented insurance networks, the absence or underuse of safety nets, and other protocols, in addition to unwarranted variation in physician practice patterns that lack accountability,” NOWHERE does the article mention Federal Govt, CDC, FDA, NIH, etc. As being culpable.
Especially considering MANDATES, and denial of service to the UNVAXXED. “Other Protocols” is as close as this article comes to naming GOVERNMENT as the problem.


6 posted on 12/31/2022 5:51:31 AM PST by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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When the government pays hospitals thousands to put treatable people on respirators and shoot them up with dangerous experimental drugs, I lose all trust and respect for the current medical system. It is sad because we used to have so much respect for them.

Hospitals can harvest people to kill to raise their bottom line.


7 posted on 12/31/2022 5:57:37 AM PST by dforest
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Fragmented insurance is a leading cause of people not going to the dr. when a dr. visit costs $180 ( thats the bill they give to the insurance) I have also seen a bill for $1400 for 1 hour of physical therapy that involves doing leg lifts and squats! and it only lasted 40 minutes! Its a scam, obamacare is exactly what thinking people told you it would be. insurance company’s screwing the working class for billions


8 posted on 12/31/2022 6:00:43 AM PST by Ikeon (work is the dirtiest 4 letter word you can say to someone under 40. )
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Next gen of doctors are woke. They can tell you all 71 genders, but they can’t tell the difference from your gall bladder and your spleen.


9 posted on 12/31/2022 6:08:21 AM PST by rarestia (“A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves one.” -Hamilton)
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An overwhelming majority of medical schools and many hospitals today MANDATE “anti-whiteness” training.

Critical race theory, which is full on anti-white hate and racism.

Are you white?

I think the odds of one of these “accidents” is overwhelmingly going to be with white patients.

A whole accumulation of wait lists, accidents, lower priority for white people will be subtle and hidden but in full force anyway.

Good luck, stay healthy, stay out of the hospital.

That smiling nurse might kick the plug when you’re not looking or ‘accidentally’ give you an overdose


10 posted on 12/31/2022 6:11:54 AM PST by Mount Athos
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

They seem to ignore the National Practitioner Data Bank, which keeps track of all physician payouts to settle claims, or as a result of judgments in a court. Of course, that was driven by malpractice insurance carriers.


11 posted on 12/31/2022 6:15:43 AM PST by jagusafr ( )
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The only solution is even more diversity! /s


12 posted on 12/31/2022 6:16:53 AM PST by PTBAA
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Doctors who can’t speak English.

Doctors depending on voice recognition software being accurate when dictating notes.

Doctors farming out their duties to PAs. (My friend was in medical malpractice insurance for many years. He said that an enormous number of cases were the result of errors by PAs.)


13 posted on 12/31/2022 6:18:23 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (Stupid is supposed to hurt.)
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It is said that doctors are practicing... on us. My two biggest fears in life are a doctor with a knife and a politician with a pen.


14 posted on 12/31/2022 6:18:38 AM PST by Qwapisking ("IF the Second goes first the First goes second" L.Star )
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To: ARGLOCKGUY
Dates for data used in the study were 2000 to 2008.

From 2020 to the present medical “errors”, including deliberate suppression of verified and experimental cures and killing so-called vaccines, has got to be #1.

15 posted on 12/31/2022 6:22:12 AM PST by The Truth Will Make You Free
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

from 2016?


16 posted on 12/31/2022 6:35:59 AM PST by devane617 (Discipline Is Reliable, Motivation Is Fleeting..)
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

Abortion is still the leading cause of deaths in America. I;, sure they left that out of their study.


17 posted on 12/31/2022 6:39:36 AM PST by laweeks
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To: dforest

My respect for medical, military, law enforcement, government, and educational institutions is in the toilet.

Like many things in life, find the individuals you respect and don’t have a bias against said individuals in those fields.


18 posted on 12/31/2022 6:49:44 AM PST by EEGator
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To: ClearCase_guy
And that's not counting those experimental "vaccines" that doctors like to push.,

That was the first thought that crossed my mind when I read the headline. If they add the so called "mRNA Vaccine" to the list I'm sure the numbers will be revealing.

19 posted on 12/31/2022 7:05:28 AM PST by vetvetdoug
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To: ARGLOCKGUY

because it’s controlled by Politics


20 posted on 12/31/2022 7:07:19 AM PST by butlerweave
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