Sentence examples for led to preventable from inspiring English sources

Often, this led to preventable illness of both the carer and the person being cared for, and sometimes hospital admission.

Three errors led to preventable ADEs and 62 (43%; 3% of all prescriptions) had potential for patient injury (potential ADEs); 1 was potentially life-threatening (2%) and 15 were serious (24%).

These treks for care led to preventable complications and death.

Moreover, inability to receive care close to home led to preventable complications and death.

A 1989 report by U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop -- a Ronald Reagan appointee -- concluded that young smokers were very price-sensitive, indicating that cheaper cigarettes led to preventable deaths.

Left unchecked, this top-down team dynamic can lead to preventable negative outcomes for patients.

Human and device errors can lead to preventable morbidity and mortality.

That can lead to preventable hospitalizations and a host of avoidable complications, adverse reactions to treatment, and duplication of expensive, sometimes hazardous tests.

The aim of this study was to determine characteristics of drug allergy alert overrides, assess how often they lead to preventable adverse drug events (ADEs), and suggest methods for improving the allergy-alerting system.

Because insulin is so expensive, some people take less than their prescribed dose, causing higher blood sugars, which may lead to preventable, very expensive complications such as kidney failure, blindness, amputation, heart attacks or even death.

Will academe follow industry where, as the report states, safety cultures are "strong and well-developed"—in applying serious, career-damaging consequences to lab leaders who permit conditions that lead to preventable safety incidents?