Sentence examples for hospital errors from inspiring English sources

Consequently, hospitals across the country are working to reduce preventable hospital errors.

In November, a much-cited report said that 44,000 to 98,000 patients nationwide died each year because of hospital errors.

In 1987, a grand jury rejected medical "murder" charges that Mr. Zion had called for, but said hospital errors may have contributed to the death.

In 1999, a report from the Institute of Medicine found that hospital errors caused as many as 98,000 deaths a year in the United States.

Timely acknowledgment and appropriate explanations and apologies for hospital errors are not only morally, ethically and legally correct, but also good medicine for future patients.

Arthur Aaron Levin Director Center for Medical Consumers New York, Nov. 25, 2010 • To the Editor: Everything possible must be done to reduce hospital errors.

But this is where the neat story of the correlation between doctor fatigue and hospital error hits a wall.

If we can pass a health care bill, why can we not make it compulsory for every hospital in America to follow the procedures that have proved effective in reducing hospital error and hospital-induced infections?

The health minister, Jillian Skinner, will not resign over the latest revelation of another hospital error in cremating a baby's body, citing enormous support from the medical community asking her to stay.

A less well known example was a decision the chief of staff at the Veteran's Affairs medical center in Lexington, Ky., made a couple of decades ago when postmortem clinical tests showed that an elderly patient died because of a hospital error.

Canadian studies examining safety suggest that hospital error occurs in approximately 7.5 per 100 hospital admissions; preventable events occurred in 37% of these patients and death in 20% [3].